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As part of the release of macOS Tahoe 26.0, Apple has removed built-in support for FireWire devices from macOS. This removal of support can be verified by looking in System Profiler.
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On macOS Sequoia 15.7.0, System Profiler shows an entry for FireWire.
On macOS Tahoe 26.0, System Profiler no longer shows an entry for FireWire.
Running the following command on both macOS Sequoia and macOS Tahoe also shows that SPFireWireDataType has been removed from macOS, which means that System Profiler is not longer gathering data from that area:
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/usr/sbin/system_profiler -listDataTypes |