How your M1 Mac starts up in the Recovery mode of your choice, or when it decides you need to take a trip to Recovery to fix an issue.
Category Archive: Technology
Apple has today posted standalone updaters for its Security Updates released for Catalina and Mojave over a week […]
macOS 11.4 brought major changes to the way M1 Macs handle external bootable disks. This explains how this works during the boot process.
Apple should announce macOS 12 next week, but which Mac models will support it? Look in the firmware, not the tea-leaves for this speculative list.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 101. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Crib […]
There’s 1 True Recovery, Fallback Recovery and one other recovery mode. Disambiguation, explanation and how this changed in macOS 11.4.
Soon after Apple started delivering M1 Macs, users found that they couldn’t boot them from external disks. Six months later, this has largely been fixed. What went wrong?
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Crib or text […]
Track down all those duplicated files, and you could save yourself loads of disk space. Rather, you used to be able to. Why this doesn’t work so well now.
Overnight, Apple has pushed two updates, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]
