Warning: Apple Says macOS 27 Won't Support AirPort Time Capsule Backups

Throughout the 2000s and 2010s, Apple offered a enactment of Wi-Fi routers that it referred to arsenic AirPort basal stations. There was a modular AirPort Express, a higher-end AirPort Extreme with much precocious networking features, and an AirPort Time Capsule that doubled arsenic an outer retention thrust for backing up a Mac with Time Machine.


Apple discontinued the AirPort line successful 2018, and this week it shared much bittersweet quality that volition interaction the AirPort Time Capsule specifically.

As noticed by @StellaFudge, and by different users who person installed the archetypal macOS Tahoe beta, the Time Machine leafage successful the System Settings app present indicates that the adjacent large mentation of macOS — aka macOS 27 — will nary longer enactment the AirPort Time Capsule oregon immoderate different retention drives that usage the Apple Filing Protocol (AFP).

Apple already announced that its AFP lawsuit had been deprecated, successful its enterprise merchandise notes for macOS Sequoia 15.5 past month.

Starting with macOS 27, Time Capsule backups volition necessitate a retention thrust that supports much existent file-sharing protocols similar SMBv2 and SMBv3.

macOS 27 volition beryllium released adjacent year.
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