{"id":22516,"date":"2018-08-21T16:21:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T20:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22516"},"modified":"2019-06-09T20:56:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T00:56:15","slug":"back-to-my-mac-dies-with-mojave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/21\/back-to-my-mac-dies-with-mojave\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to My Mac Dies With Mojave"},"content":{"rendered":"

Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Apple has announced<\/a> that its Back to My Mac feature will not be supported in macOS 10.14 Mojave, when it is released shortly.<\/p>\n

In that announcement, it provides links to articles detailing the services which it recommends users change to instead. These are iCloud Drive for file sharing, accessing another Mac using built-in screen sharing, and managing your Mac remotely using Apple Remote Desktop (which costs £74.99 from the App Store, and hasn’t been updated since February 2017).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Colin Cornaby<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Back To My Mac created a virtual Bonjour group across all your remote devices. Useful for so many things. Besides being able to share screens you could SSH back into your home machine.<\/p>\n

iCloud Drive is not at all a replacement. :(<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Back to my Mac’s removal just underscores that there is no place for anything at Apple that isn’t 1) iCloud-based, and 2) iOS-compatible. This is a running theme; everything else is on borrowed time<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Edovia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Screens (iOS<\/a> and Mac<\/a>) and Screens Connect<\/a> are a great alternative to Back to My Mac. In fact, Screens Connect essentially behaves like the soon to be defunct service; it manages to open a port on your router and sends that information to our server. Then, Screens retrieves that information in order to connect to your Mac remotely.<\/p>\n

Screens Connect starts at boot time so it makes sure that your Mac remains reachable, even if no user has logged in.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

I have also had good luck with TeamViewer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2018-08-22): Kevin Ballard<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Theory: Back To My Mac is going away because without a Bonjour sleep proxy, you can’t wake up your home computer remotely. And without an AirPort Extreme you don’t have a Bonjour sleep proxy. So the death of the AirPort means BtMM doesn’t work well.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously: Apple Officially Discontinues AirPort Router Line<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Cabel Sasser<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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😔<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Wil Shipley<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This is some epic level bullshit. Apple should be encouraging home servers instead of pulling their features one by one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

chancerubbage<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I can’t even parse the logic of the change from ‘back to my Mac is part of icloud services’ to ‘back to my Mac is ending; use iCloud’ because Apple is much quieter and vague about exactly what these services are anyway. It’s all mkting buzzwords I’ve never found personally useful<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Meek Geek<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Another Mac feature bites the dust, with no decent replacement.<\/p>\n

Back to My Mac’s integration with the Finder was the best. Access your Mac & hard drives from anywhere. Although flaky at times, it’s a life saver when you’re out and about.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

scott<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Apple is killing Back To My Mac in favor of the Pro Subscription Plan. Just buy more iCloud storage and pay $80 for Apple Remote Desktop.<\/p>\n

Most people don’t need it, so we should start charging extra for it. The new Apple.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I’m not sure screen sharing and remote desktop access are adequate replacements.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

See also: MacRumors<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2018-08-23): Luc Vandal<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Is @screensvnc the first app being un-Sherlocked?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously: Removed in macOS 10.14 Mojave<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2018-08-30): Glenn Fleishman<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I found Back to My Mac such an exciting proposition back then—and so complicated to get working just right with different routers and network setups—that I wrote a nearly 100-page book for the Take Control series just about Back to My Mac. (And a separate one about screen sharing!)<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

First, some good news: the loss of Back to My Mac doesn’t affect macOS’s built-in screen sharing, which you can still use over your LAN<\/a> or invoke via Messages<\/a>.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

People who still need a Mac-to-Mac secure tunnel will have to look into more complicated solutions, like installing VPN server software on their Mac. That used to be an option with macOS Server, but Apple is removing the VPN server<\/a> in future versions (see “Apple to Deprecate Many macOS Server Services<\/a>,” 26 January 2018).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Update (2019-05-31): Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Apple today announced in an updated support document<\/a> that the Back to My Mac service is being eliminated from all versions of macOS on July 1, 2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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