What to try if your Mac doesn’t enter Recovery Mode when you want it to. For Apple silicon Macs, there’s Fallback Recovery, while Intel Macs have two forms of internet or remote recovery to choose from.
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On Intel Macs, key combinations determine startup modes and more, but they have no effect on Apple silicon Macs. And how to deal with keyboard problems when logging in.
Sometimes you can’t use the menu command, or it doesn’t work. What do you try next?
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