macOS-15 (arm64) & macOS-26 (arm64) Availability on Azure Pipelines

[softworkz]

No Apple Silicon runners available on Azure Pipeline?

According to this note, macos-15-arm64 runners have been paused.

Effectively, at the moment, there are NO Apple Silicon runners available on Azure Pipelines at all!

How can this be? How can it even be, that “macos-15-arm64” runners are still called as in “preview”?

We are paying customers of Azure DevOps and I must say that it is ultimately frustrating to see that people can get a wide variety of MacOS runners (x64 and arm64) on GitHub for free, while we are receiving only 3rd-class service on Azure DevOps.

--

I'm aware of the existence of #8971 - but it has been locked. Why has #8971 been locked?

For being able to close all related issues as a duplicate and silence any further feedback?

[softworkz]

And yes, I am well aware that this repository is just about runner VM images, but from all I know, this is the closest path to receive attention from the responsible persons.
What's entirely pointless from my experience is submitting support requests, because I really do not need any clueless people from India, who are just reading back and quoting documentation that I've read before already.

[Pierreluc14]

No Apple Silicon runners available on Azure Pipeline?

A update about it in June

[softworkz]

No Apple Silicon runners available on Azure Pipeline?

A update about it in June

Too little, too late!

(but thanks a lot for the reference)

[v-SergeiRadich]

Hi @softworkz!

Unfortunately we have no direct influence on Azure DevOps processes, so we can't do much in terms of image availability there. We will, however, gather more information and update the original ticket #8971. It will take some time though.

For now I'm going to close this issue.