# WHATPORT(7000)

## NAME

port 7000 — AirPlay receiver — An AirPlay receiver: an Apple TV, HomePod, AirPlay-capable TV, or a Mac with AirPlay Receiver turned on.

Protocol: TCP  
IANA: afs3-fileserver

## DESCRIPTION

Apple's AirPlay control channel listens on TCP 7000; the device advertises itself over mDNS (_airplay._tcp) and clients then talk HTTP-ish RTSP to this port to negotiate screen mirroring and audio streaming. It turns up on home-network scans from Apple TVs, HomePods, and third-party TVs with AirPlay 2, and on Macs since macOS Monterey where AirPlay Receiver is a Sharing toggle. Note that IANA registers 7000 to afs3-fileserver, not to Apple, so the registry name on your scanner output is usually wrong here.

## EXPOSURE

**Do not expose.** AirPlay is a LAN protocol with weak-to-optional pairing and has had a run of remote code execution bugs (the 2025 AirBorne set), so it has no business being reachable from the internet.

## CHECK

```sh
curl -s -m 3 http://TARGET:7000/info | head -c 200
```

## SEE ALSO

- docs — [Apple — TCP and UDP ports used by Apple software products (7000 = AirPlay)](https://support.apple.com/en-us/103229) (support.apple.com)
- source — [openairplay/airplay-spec — unofficial AirPlay protocol specification](https://github.com/openairplay/airplay-spec) (github.com)
- iana — [IANA port registry — 7000 (registered as afs3-fileserver)](https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml?search=7000) (iana.org)

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