For those who encountered this problem, check if your anaconda installed in your silicon mac is arm64 version rather than the x86_64 version. You can do this by running conda info. One of the lines shall say __archspec=1=arm64, if you saw __archspec=1=x86_64, running conda install -c apple *** makes conda looking for the x86_64 version of *** pacakge (fortunately tensorflow-deps only has arm64 version otherwise many of us would keep living with the mismatched version of tensorflow-deps on our apple silicon). I saw some replies saying after trying miniforge/miniconda, the installation works. This is because when they switched to miniforge/miniconda, they installed it with the correct __archspec. If you see your anaconda installed with mismatch archictecture, go to bottom of https://www.anaconda.com/products/distribution#macos to grab the right one. P.S. If the way you installed anaconda on your apple silicon mac is by simply googling, it's highly possible you installed the wrong one. Anaconda installation tutorial ignores what platform we visit its page, and just gives x86_64 mac installation instruction by default :(