AirPort Utility

Apple is removing AirPort Utility from iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate, eight years after discontinuing the hardware it manages. That is an unusually long run, but it still leaves working AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule devices without Apple’s configuration software.

airport-utility is an MIT-licensed reimplementation for macOS 27 and later, with a Swift interface and a Python backend for the AirPort Configuration Protocol. It supports both ACP generations and has been tested against several models from all three product lines, so it should let people keep configuring their AirPorts after Apple’s utility disappears.

The project is still in beta, requires macOS 13 or later, Swift 6 and Python 3.10, and some devices and features have not been tested yet. It has no third-party Swift or Python dependencies.