Why did Apple remove Network Utility from Big Sur?

[mattkime]

Just seems annoying.

[freeradical]

Are you sure it's actually missing?

I'm on Sierra, and the path to that program is really funny.

Macintosh HD/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Network Utility.app

[N-OS X-tasy!]

freeradical wrote:
Are you sure it's actually missing?

I'm on Sierra, and the path to that program is really funny.

Macintosh HD/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Network Utility.app

The app is still there in Big Sur, but when you launch it a splash screen comes up stating that the app has been deprecated in BS.

[JoeH]

I assume it still works? Anyways, Network Utility is part of a group of utilities Apple moved from the normal Utilities folder several versions ago to that Library location. Perhaps there is a developers note on what they are replacing it with. Otherwise the functions are not too hard to find from other apps.

[Sarcany]

JoeH wrote:
I assume it still works? Anyways, Network Utility is part of a group of utilities Apple moved from the normal Utilities folder several versions ago to that Library location. Perhaps there is a developers note on what they are replacing it with. Otherwise the functions are not too hard to find from other apps.

It's been killed.

They are not replacing it.

[MrNoBody]

To force you to use Unix commands like ifconfig & netstat?

Macintosh HD/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Network Utility.app
Still there in Mojave.

[tuqqer]

Well sure enough, they did remove it. Or "deprecated" it.



Interesting: I found this only by typing it into Spotlight. Discovered that this de-commissioned app now only lives in

HD/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications

... along with a few other weirdo applications.

[NewtonMP2100]

.....so self.....deprecated.......???

[NewtonMP2100]

.....f.....utility....????

[sekker]

This is very odd. I am not a network guru, and I still use this utility.