Episode Details

In this episode, Tyler gives a demonstration and walkthrough of macOS Recovery, a suite of utilities that can help resolve issues with your Mac and manage startup parameters. From within macOS Recovery, you can:

• Restore your Mac from a Time Machine backup or local snapshot
• Reinstall macOS
• Verify and repair the filesystem on your startup disk, as well as external disks connected to your Mac
• Erase and reformat your startup disk, as well as external disks connected to your Mac
• Change the startup security level and other security settings for your startup disk
• Access Terminal to issue commands directly to the operating system
• Mount your disk on another Mac connected via Thunderbolt to your Mac, allowing files to be created, copied, modified, and deleted as if the disk were an external storage device

More information about macOS Recovery can be found in the Apple Support article “Intro to macOS Recovery.”