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By MacRumors Staff on June 19, 2025

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macOS Tahoe Beta Drops FireWire Support

Thursday June 19, 2025 7:37 am PDT by Joe Rossignol

A bit of sad news for old iPods: Macs might be losing FireWire support. The first macOS Tahoe developer beta does not support the legacy FireWire 400 and FireWire 800 data-transfer standards, according to @NekoMichi on X, and a Reddit post. As a result, the first few iPod models and old external storage drives that rely on FireWire cannot be synced with or mounted on a Mac running the macOS ...

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