Sigh. Here's a guide to make tensorflow-text work on M1. I used miniforge to create a virtual environment and installed the latest version of tensorflow-macos (2.10). To install tensorflow-text for M1, you can find the built wheel for M1 on github. I tried to add a link but the system didn't allow me to post this comment with that link (thanks btw that's really helpful /s) I could only find a wheel for tensorflow-text v 2.9. I tried to revert my tensorflow-macos to 2.9, but when I work with it, it throws an error "zsh: bus error". It's not fixable. So I have to stick to tensorflow-macos to 2.10. Instead, you can build the wheel for tensorflow-text 2.10 from source on your machine. Clone the repository, checkout to tag 2.10, and build. Make sure your conda environment is activated when you do this. git clone https://github.com/tensorflow/text.git cd text git checkout tags/v2.10.0 ./oss_scripts/run_build.sh pip install tensorflow_text-2.10.0-cp39-cp39-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl The compilation requires bazel version 5.3. For bazel, I recommend using brew install bazelisk -- this has caused me least trouble to set up. This works for me, but it took way longer than I would have liked.