Can’t boot into recovery on M1 MacBook Pro.

[avz]

M1 MBP seems to boot quicker than quick. Holding down cmd-r well in advance does not do anything. Anybody else is having this issue?

 

[Mike Boreham]

M1 Macs boot to Recovery by shutting down then press and hold the power button until Start up options appears.

 

[hg.wells]

I believe M1 macs have a different process:

Use macOS Recovery on a Mac with Apple silicon

Learn how to use macOS Recovery on a Mac with Apple silicon.

support.apple.com

 

[avz]

Thanks. Now I realised that I used it in the past but completely forgot about it.