Where is Apple Airport Utility?

"It is are part of the Ventura operating system on my Mac and my wife's Mac."

Check again! I found it on www.apple.com. Version 6.3.1. I tried to install and it said new M2 Mac Air with Ventura, Installer said it is not compatible!

"Check again! I found it on www.apple.com. Version 6.3.1. I tried to install and it said new M2 Mac Air with Ventura, Installer said it is not compatible!"

OK, yep its there in Utilities. Tried it and it runs. But why does installer bulk?

Bob,

"Seems the issue was created by the OP trying to install AirPort Utility 6.3.1 for some reason. "

The 'reason' was I didn't find Airport Utility at first on my wife's M2 Air/Ventura.

Back in the day, Apple didn't include some more sophisticated apps on installation, you had to go get them separately. Like the whole development system. I thought this was the case with Airport Port Utility, you installed it if you got a Airport Extreme or Time Capsule.

When the new iOS came out with the app measure, I was vastly disappointed it was not compatible with my iPhone 6, that gave me the clue I was not living on borrowed time, but I waited til just recently to upgrade to an iPhone 14 Pro Max (partly because Apple paid for 1/2 the cost, but that is another story). I was disappointed again, that measure was not on it. You have to install that manually via the App store now. Thought AirPort Utility was the same thing. I have used measure a few times now and it works VERY well, like when you are in the hardware store and don't have a tape measure. I note that if the object to measure is too large for the display, you can scan the iPhone to get the whole object and measure recognizes that movement (God, what will they think of next)!

"Bottom line......AirPort Utility was already there on the Mac all along.....right where we said it was.....and where it has been for 11+ years."

COME ON, give me a break, I just missed it! I FULLY EXPLAINED why I thought it might not be there, after not seeing it at first!

"Does not work for me. File read error."

Does it it run? Have you tried copying it again?

To correct an earlier post where I asked: " But why does installer bulk?"

I guess because there was a more recent copy already installed that I missed ACCIDENTALLY.

"Finding it on another Mac constitutes finding it."

Not exactly. I wanted to copy calculator from Sierra to El Capitan, and it wouldn't do it, after copying it, it would not run, said needed Sierra. Now why in the H E double toothpick did such a simple app as Calculator need Sierra? I wanted it as the Sierra version corrected some mistakes in the El Capitan version.

Earlier you stated: "AirPort Utility is incorporated in macOS. It cannot be deleted." You are mostly correct in that. You don't have persmission, just checked, there is system that can write, wheel (what ever that is) can read, and everyone that can read. But I bet you can log in as root, and change the permissions. Then delete it.

Thanks for the explanation MrHoffman! So did John Galt lose the bet that never was agreed to how much $ was at stake? In El Capitan to to get handoff and continuity to work with a 2011 MBP I had to turn off SIP for a while (also had to replace the WiFi/Bluetooth board with a newer one). Just recently for some other reason, I forget now, I also had to turn off SIP for a while and that was directions from the mothership.