hoakley August 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

Back to My Mac dies with Mojave

Apple has announced that its Back to My Mac feature will not be supported in macOS 10.14 Mojave, when it is released shortly.

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).

Rumours suggest that Mojave may now be less than a month away. If you are using Back to My Mac and intend upgrading to Mojave, you might like to start switching to those other services now.

Back to My Mac was introduced in Mac OS X Leopard, in 2007, and since 2011 has been included in iCloud services.

(Thanks to Sqwarq for drawing attention to this, because I don’t recall Apple announcing it clearly.)

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Robert Hancock on August 21, 2018 at 8:04 pm

Can we assume that Apple will soon be making ARD (admin) free instead of overcharging $74.99 or £74.99? That would be fair compensation for taking away the useful free BTMM—and when can I get my refund please.

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  hoakley on August 21, 2018 at 8:07 pm
  
  I agree – which is why I added the price.
  ARD is not bad (although it has had its problems), but priced for corporate networks, not as a replacement for a free feature in macOS. If Apple is going to recommend its use to those who have been using BTMM in the past, then it should price it accordingly, i.e. free.
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Michael Tsai - Blog - Back to My Mac Dies With Mojave on August 21, 2018 at 8:21 pm

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The Real Nirv on August 23, 2018 at 12:31 am

This came up as a notification, https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208922

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  hoakley on August 23, 2018 at 5:01 am
  
  Thank you.
  Do you use BTMM? When did it appear as a notification?
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Robert Hancock on August 28, 2018 at 9:23 pm

In fact, thinking about it, Apple did “deprecate” (in the true sense of the word) BTMM for Mojave because BTMM is still supported in HS and earlier OSes.
Today’s 7.8 firmware update for the Airport Express also includes BTMM settings.

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  hoakley on August 28, 2018 at 10:19 pm
  
  Thanks for the info about the AirPort Express update, although how many are still using Apple’s abandoned Wi-Fi devices I don’t know.
  “Deprecation” is an interesting one. Not so long ago I was deprecated because I suggested that a macOS developer feature which Apple had formally deprecated in June might be removed in September: I was told that Apple would never dream of being so hasty. But hasty it has been with the termination of BTMM support.
  In Apple’s use of the word, BTMM is currently deprecated and due for removal in Mojave. OpenGL and OpenCL, 32-bit, etc., are all deprecated in Mojave but will continue to work.
  My OED tells me that most uses of the word are obsolete, which says a lot. The only current use means:
  “To plead earnestly against; to express an earnest wish against (a proceeding); to express earnest disapproval of (a course, plan, purpose, etc.)”
  I think that Apple has gone a bit further than that! Or maybe it has invoked the OED’s original meaning of “to pray against (evil); to pray for deliverance from; to seek to avert by prayer.”
  Howard.
  
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