Why is Control Center on Monterey listening on ports?

App & System Services Core OS
bfad OP
Created Jun ’21
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Why is Control Center on Monterey listening to port 5000 and port 7000? I have used these ports for years for local development, but now find them in use by Control Center. Is this worth filling a Feedback about?

Answered by bfad in 678289022

This is apparently due to the new AirPlay functionality. Control Center stops listening to those ports when I turn off “AirPlay Receiver” in the “Sharing” System Preference:

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