{"id":48180,"date":"2025-06-23T16:20:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T20:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48180"},"modified":"2025-06-23T16:20:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T20:20:53","slug":"macos-27-to-drop-support-for-airport-and-time-capsule-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/23\/macos-27-to-drop-support-for-airport-and-time-capsule-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"macOS 27 to Drop Support for AirPort and Time Capsule Backups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/06\/10\/time-machine-backup-macos\/\">Zac Hall<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/06\/10\/time-machine-backup-macos\/\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StellaFudge\/status\/1932449171572998310\">Spotted by @StellaFudge on X<\/a>, macOS Tahoe 26 includes a warning message when using Time Machine to back up a Mac to Apple router-connected storage.<\/p><blockquote><p>The next major version of macOS will no longer support AirPort Disk, or other Time Capsule disks, for Time Machine backups.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I wonder if this is because they&rsquo;re removing AFP entirely, after recently deprecating it in macOS 15.5.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/06\/10\/macos-27-wont-support-airport-time-capsule\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/06\/10\/macos-27-wont-support-airport-time-capsule\/\">\n<p>Starting with macOS 27, [network Time Machine] backups will require a storage drive that supports more current file-sharing protocols like SMBv2 and SMBv3.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Time Capsules only support AFP and SMBv1, I think.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/13\/macos-15-5\/\">macOS 15.5<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/21\/network-time-machine-backups\/\">Network Time Machine Backups<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/28\/apple-officially-discontinues-airport-router-line\/\">Apple Officially Discontinues AirPort Router Line<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zac Hall: Spotted by @StellaFudge on X, macOS Tahoe 26 includes a warning message when using Time Machine to back up a Mac to Apple router-connected storage.The next major version of macOS will no longer support AirPort Disk, or other Time Capsule disks, for Time Machine backups. I wonder if this is because they&rsquo;re removing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-06-23T20:20:58Z","apple_news_api_id":"371e595a-4a33-4316-91c7-c08502b1ab9d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-06-23T20:20:58Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ANx5ZWkozQxaRx8CFArGrnQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1188,589,30,2784,476,1451,503,216],"class_list":["post-48180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-airport-express","tag-airport-extreme-base-station","tag-mac","tag-macos-27","tag-networking","tag-sunset","tag-timecapsule","tag-timemachine"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48181,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48180\/revisions\/48181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}