VS Code suddenly showing emulation warning and extremely slow on Mac M1

[0xCarnival]

VS Code suddenly showing emulation warning and extremely slow on Mac M1
Problem
VS Code suddenly became extremely slow/laggy and now shows: "You are running an emulated version of Visual Studio Code. For better performance download the native arm64 version of Visual Studio Code build for your machine."
Never seen this warning before after years of use on this machine. Downloaded ARM64 version - same issue persists.
Environment

macOS: 15.4.1 (24E263)
Hardware: Mac M1
VS Code: Latest from website

Tried

Restart
Complete uninstall/reinstall
Downloaded ARM64 version specifically
All attempts = same slow performance + emulation warning

Question
Why would VS Code suddenly switch to emulated mode? How to verify I'm actually getting the native ARM64 build?

[beccakotula]

This is happening to me on Mac as well, macOS: 14.6.1

[vjpb]

Same here, I can't even work on it! It's really slow, and I have a 15.3.2 (24D81) Apple M3 Pro.

[vjpb]

VS Code suddenly showing emulation warning and extremely slow on Mac M1 Problem VS Code suddenly became extremely slow/laggy and now shows: "You are running an emulated version of Visual Studio Code. For better performance download the native arm64 version of Visual Studio Code build for your machine." Never seen this warning before after years of use on this machine. Downloaded ARM64 version - same issue persists. Environment

macOS: 15.4.1 (24E263) Hardware: Mac M1 VS Code: Latest from website

Tried

Restart Complete uninstall/reinstall Downloaded ARM64 version specifically All attempts = same slow performance + emulation warning

Question Why would VS Code suddenly switch to emulated mode? How to verify I'm actually getting the native ARM64 build?

https://code.visualstudio.com/download#
I resolved the problem by downloading the Apple Silicon version. Try doing the same; it might work for you as well. Just close all your VS Code windows and run the Apple Silicon version.

[deepak1556]

Can you share the output of lipo -info /Applications/Visual\ Studio\ Code.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron