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How to make macOS betas and upgrades safer

Whether it’s a beta of macOS 12, 11.5, or even a release upgrade, installing it is a risk. Here’s how to mitigate disaster by rolling back to a previous release.

June 4, 2021 Macs, Technology

How to roll your M1 Mac back to Big Sur 11.1

macOS updates sometimes don’t work out right. What can you do to revert to the previous release? Did I hear you mention snapshots?

February 9, 2021 Macs, Technology

Introducing your new M1 Mac

First update it to 11.0.1. Here are details of the problems which can arise and how to solve them, from unenrolling from betas to using Configurator to Revive an M1 Mac.

November 26, 2020 Macs, Technology

What to do when a T2 Mac suffers a problem updating its firmware

If there’s one thing you don’t want to happen with any Mac with a T2 chip it’s a […]

April 13, 2020 Macs, Technology

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