Starting with macOS 26 Tahoe, the OS now warns users that AirPort Disk and Apple Time Capsule-style network disks will no longer be supported for Time Machine backups in the next major release. That message appears in the Time Machine section of System Settings in macOS 26.
macOS 26 Tahoe (released in September 2025, with the latest update being 26.3 in February 2026) does not completely drop support for Time Capsule or AirPort Extreme-connected disks for Time Machine backups. Existing backups to these devices (using the legacy Apple Filing Protocol, or AFP) generally continue to work in Tahoe, including incremental backups to pre-existing Time Machine stores on HFS+-formatted volumes.
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