<story><title>Why is Control Center on Monterey listening on ports?</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/682332</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rock_artist</author><text>I am surprised to see so much comments without mentioning the reason of that (written in the thread)...&lt;p&gt;* It&amp;#x27;s the new AirPlay server capability.&lt;p&gt;* It can be toggled off.&lt;p&gt;* Those ports are the defaults for AirPlay.&lt;p&gt;It might&amp;#x27;ve been nice to allow simple way of customizing the ports though..</text></comment>
<story><title>Why is Control Center on Monterey listening on ports?</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/682332</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cromka</author><text>This was discussed before:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=29006861&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=29006861&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Their usage of port 5000 appears compliant with IANA port designation.</text></comment>