
Note: You may have Bonjour installed on your computer, you may never have had an iPhone, iPad, or iPod, and you may not be using Apple software on your computer.
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One thing to note here: if Apple Software Update updates iTunes or iCloud on your computer, you will have Bonjour installed again during the update.
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Now let's see how to uninstall Bonjour - like any other Windows program: I can't check here, unfortunately, and the info I've found varies - some of the info says Bonjour is not needed for this, another says if there are issues with syncing iTunes over Wi-Fi then Bonjour should be installed first. Possible problems will be that iTunes notifies you that Bonjour is missing, but normally all the functions commonly used by users will continue to work, that is, you will be able to copy music, make backup copies of your Apple device.Ī controversial question is whether syncing iPhone and iPad with iTunes over Wi-Fi will work. Will it still work as before? If you don't use the features mentioned above (network music sharing, Apple TV), it will. Yes, you can remove Bonjour from your computer.

Can Bonjour be uninstalled and how to do it? How this is implemented exactly - I haven't seen it (from the information I have found, all devices and computers in Zeroconf are available in network_name.local instead of the IP address, and the plugins probably somehow automate the search and selection of these devices).

This, in turn, makes them easier to access and, when the plug-in is used in a browser, speeds up access to the configuration of routers, printers, and other web-enabled devices.

From what I can understand, Bonjour, using the Zeroconf Cross-Platform Networking Protocol (mDNS) instead of NetBIOS, detects LAN network devices that support this protocol. I will try to clarify everything described in the second paragraph (I cannot vouch for the accuracy).
