All modern Macs with Apple silicon contain a variety of utilities accessible before your Mac starts the operating system. macOS Recovery It has a built-in recovery system. In this article, we explain in detail which applications are available in macOS Recovery and how to use them.
If your Mac isn’t working as it should, you can do a few troubleshooting steps on your Mac with macOS Recovery. Once in macOS Recovery, you can repair your Mac’s internal drive, reinstall macOS, restore your data from a Time Machine backup, boot in safe mode, transfer files between two Macs, and change security policies for different volumes.
The following apps are available in macOS Recovery:
- Time Machine
- Install macOS Ventura
- Safari
- Disk Utility
- Startup Security Utility
- Terminal
- Share Disk
- Startup Disk
How to Enter macOS Recovery
Follow the steps below to start your computer in macOS Recovery.
- If it’s already open, click the Apple icon in the menu bar. CloseShut down your Mac by selecting .
- When your Mac is completely shut down, “Loading startup options” until (Loading startup options) appears. hold the power button.
- Optionsand then ContinueClick .
- If prompted, select a volume to recover, and then ForwardClick .
- Select your administrator account, then ForwardClick .
- Enter your administrator password, and then ContinueClick .
After a short while, the Recovery application will appear in the menu bar and you will be able to select options from the window or the menu bar and launch applications.
If the Wi-Fi icon appears in the upper-right corner of the screen and contains one or more bars, remember that your Mac is connected to the internet. If the icon does not contain any bars, Wi-Fi is on but not connected to a wireless network. You can change the Wi-Fi state and join a network by clicking the Wi-Fi icon, then download and reinstall macOS if needed.
How to Exit macOS Recovery?
When you’re done using the utilities in macOS Recovery, click the Apple icon in the menu bar and click Y.start again or CloseYou can exit by selecting or choose a different startup disk before restarting.