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Apple makes it easy to protect your Mac data using Time Machine

Time Machine is Apple's native utility for backing up data on macOS onto an external drive. The app comes preinstalled on Macs, making it easy to set up for regular backups. Backing up with Time ...
9to5Mac

macOS dropping support for AirPort/Time Capsule disk Time Machine backups next year

Apple disbanded its router hardware team in 2016 and officially exited the business in 2018. Now in 2025, Apple is signaling that one of the last remaining benefits of its networking hardware will be ...
AppleInsider

Time Machine's Time Capsule support ends with macOS 27

It's not just Intel code — after a period of undeath, Time Capsule's time is coming, with Apple cutting off support for Time Machine backups using the hardware in macOS 27. Time Capsules, Apple's long ...
Macworld

Here’s why Time Machine won’t work with your external drive

Mac users relying on Time Machine went through a rough transition a few years ago when Apple migrated away from its long-used HFS+ format for encoding hard drives and SSDs to the modern, more capable, ...
Tidbits

AFP Support Disappearing: Another Nail in the Time Capsule Coffin

When I covered the recent update to macOS 15.5 Sequoia (see “Apple Releases iOS 18.5, macOS 15.5, and Other x.5 OS Updates,” 12 May 2025), I referenced a detail from Apple’s enterprise release notes ...