05.19.2025
Apple Filing Protocol is one of Apple's original file-sharing technologies. Its client software will soon be gone from macOS forever.Apple has deprecated support for Apple Filing Protocol in macOS Sequoia
Apple has deprecated support for Apple Filing Protocol in macOS Sequoia 15.5.
The year after Apple released the Macintosh in 1984, it introduced a proprietary networking standard called Apple Filing Protocol. Part of a suite of software which included AppleTalk, AppleShare, and Apple cabling hardware called LocalTalk, AFP allowed users to share files across Macs on local area networks.
This was a decade before the Internet and its open protocols became popular in the mid-1990s.
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