Why did Apple remove Network Utility from Big Sur?

[JoeH]

Oh well, an opportunity for some app developer to create a new GUI frontend for the underlying command line utilities that Network Utility provides.

Whoever created the message window should be demoted, deprecated normally does not mean discontinued. Its usual meaning is "to be discontinued in a future release."

[N-OS X-tasy!]

JoeH wrote:
Oh well, an opportunity for some app developer to create a new GUI frontend for the underlying command line utilities that Network Utility provides."

Going by memory here, but I believe Cocktail may offer some or all of the same functionality.

[NewtonMP2100]

....that's what she said....!!

[space-time]

JoeH wrote:
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Whoever created the message window should be demoted, deprecated normally does not mean discontinued. Its usual meaning is "to be discontinued in a future release."

Also the App is still there. They just disabled it.

On MacBook Air with Mojave, the Network Utility takes 1.6 MB of SSD space (512 GB SSD). On a new M1 MacBook Air, it takes 2.1 MB SSD space (1 TB SSD). I am not sure if the block size is the same or not, especially since are different machines, different OS, different architecture, and so on. They are both version 1.9.2

I bet it would still work if you knew hot to bypass that screen.

[mattkime]

A couple of things -

"Deprecated" usually means available but will soon be removed. At best I can tell they made it useless.

The thing is still about the same size on your hard drive as it was before. Its my guess that most of the code is still there - but why?

There must be some sort of dependency on it.

[freeradical]

Maybe you can just take an older copy of it and stick it into:

/Applications/Utilities


Worth a shot anyway

[decay]

Sounds more like DISABLED, not deprecated.

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2020/06/23...eprecated/

Since June 2020...

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/06/...rk-utility