macOS Tahoe Beta Drops FireWire Support

A spot of bittersweet quality for aged iPods: Macs mightiness beryllium losing FireWire support.


The archetypal macOS Tahoe developer beta does not enactment the bequest FireWire 400 and FireWire 800 data-transfer standards, according to @NekoMichi connected X, and a Reddit post. As a result, the archetypal fewer iPod models and aged outer retention drives that trust connected FireWire cannot beryllium synced with oregon mounted connected a Mac moving the macOS Tahoe beta.

Unlike connected macOS Sequoia and earlier versions, the archetypal macOS Tahoe beta nary longer includes a FireWire conception successful the System Settings app.

Of course, this could each extremity up being a mendacious alarm. It is inactive aboriginal successful the macOS Tahoe beta investigating cycle, and FireWire enactment could instrumentality successful a aboriginal beta version, oregon successful clip for the last release. We reached retired to Apple for remark astir the substance soon earlier publishing this story, and we volition update this communicative if we perceive back.

FireWire was chiefly developed by Apple, but it was aboriginal standardized arsenic IEEE 1394 and licensed for usage successful non-Apple devices.

iPods started to modulation from FireWire to USB for information transportation successful 2003, truthful the modular is precise outdated, but it would inactive beryllium the extremity of an epoch if macOS Tahoe drops it. The past Mac with a FireWire larboard was released successful 2012, truthful connecting older iPods and FireWire drives to newer Macs has agelong required the usage of adapters.
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