NEVERMIND - Clicking on the "More Info" button leads to this page which just says "Back to My Mac will not be available on macOS Mojave." So maybe people on older versions of macOS can continue to use it. But since it definitely relies on Apple's backend infrastructure to function, it is a feature that Apple could completely disable at any time. Sorry if anyone got led astray before I edited this.
Those of us closely following development of macOS Mojave have noted that since the very first beta, the "Back to My Mac" iCloud service was missing (and has not returned in any subsequent beta). Thus even with no confirmation from Apple, it seemed pretty clear that they were deprecating it for Mojave.
What I didn't know though is now it appears they're shutting down the service altogether, meaning it will stop working even if you don't upgrade to Mojave. Today, on my MBP running 10.13.6 I just got this notification
I have to say it's a bummer to lose the service. Apple really did improve it with High Sierra to the point where it always worked for me (it was definitely hit and miss with previous versions of macOS). I remote in to work from home (and vice-versa) often enough to find the functionality useful, and is definitely more secure than permanently opening a port for VNC in my firewall.
I was already prepared to lose it as I am going to be upgrading to Mojave. But for anyone who expected to be able to stay on older versions of macOS and keep using it, you may want to figure out another solution.
I'm going to get openVPN set up and working--it's more secure anyway. But something like TeamViewer would be another alternative.
What I didn't know though is now it appears they're shutting down the service altogether, meaning it will stop working even if you don't upgrade to Mojave. Today, on my MBP running 10.13.6 I just got this notification
I have to say it's a bummer to lose the service. Apple really did improve it with High Sierra to the point where it always worked for me (it was definitely hit and miss with previous versions of macOS). I remote in to work from home (and vice-versa) often enough to find the functionality useful, and is definitely more secure than permanently opening a port for VNC in my firewall.
I was already prepared to lose it as I am going to be upgrading to Mojave. But for anyone who expected to be able to stay on older versions of macOS and keep using it, you may want to figure out another solution.
I'm going to get openVPN set up and working--it's more secure anyway. But something like TeamViewer would be another alternative.
