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How Monterey changes Apple Silicon Recovery

Soon M1 Macs will be able to boot from two major versions of macOS, and with new models coming, users are going to have more complex systems. How will Recovery cope?

September 23, 2021 Macs, Technology

How long does Apple support macOS?

Unofficially, each major version of macOS gets a year’s full support, with bug and security fixes, then 2 years of security updates. Is that how it works?

September 22, 2021 Macs, Technology

Why you shouldn’t delete one of a Volume Group in macOS 11 or later

Why deleting either the System or Data volume, but not the whole Volume Group, could get your Mac into trouble in macOS 11 or 12.

September 21, 2021 Macs, Technology

Apple has updated Safari to version 15.0 for Big Sur and Catalina

Apple has released an update for Safari in Big Sur and Catalina, bringing it to version 15.0. This […]

September 20, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: the macOS update problem

Apple seemed reluctant to provide a full installer and IPSW image for 11.6. How does that affect those staying with Big Sur for the next year of security updates?

September 19, 2021 Macs, Technology

Explainer: the Recovery Partition

Introduced in Mac OS X 10.7, it remained an HFS+ partition until High Sierra. With Mojave, it became an APFS volume, except for M1 Macs.

September 18, 2021 Macs, Technology

Biggest Sur by far

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With Big Sur 11.6 reaching the end of the year’s cycle, it’s time to take stock of just how much we had to download to keep it up to date.

September 15, 2021 Macs, Technology

What has changed in macOS 11.6?

Today’s update to take Big Sur from 11.5.2 to 11.6 isn’t as extensive as you’d expect for a […]

September 13, 2021 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released macOS Big Sur 11.6, a Catalina Security Update, and MRT 1.84

Apple has just released three important updates: Big Sur 11.6, Catalina Security Update 2021-005, and MRT 1.84. macOS […]

September 13, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

T2M2 version 1.19 is now available

Intended to be the last version to support macOS 10.12 to 12, and backing up to HFS+ volumes, this contains small improvements particularly for Monterey.

September 9, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

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