macOS Tahoe Features a New Recovery Assistant

[GriffinCorp2]

I wish Apple had a restore PC feature like Windows. I always hate having to reimage macs.

 

[allpar]

I like the new feature, but y'know what I'd like more day to day?
COLOR in the sidebar.
Like, different colors I could assign to different folders.
Hurray I can color things in the Finder, but not the Sidebar!

 

[turbineseaplane]

Or the Classic MacOS "Error type 11" screen that didn't help either.

Maybe they can bring back the cannonball icon with the lit fuse? 🤦‍♂️

This gave me a TOTAL laugh out loud!

😂

Great memory -- thank you for that.

 

[ApAx]

Well if they had a tool that 100% guaranteed success that WOULD be amazing. An industry first.

A troubleshooter isn't a very useful tool if Apple can't even estimate probabilities to identify when it needs to run, or provide an estimate of success rates when it does run that it can correctly identify an issue that it can help with.

 

[JohnC1959]

A troubleshooter isn't a very useful tool if Apple can't even estimate probabilities to identify when it needs to run, or provide an estimate of success rates when it does run that it can correctly identify an issue that it can help with.

i disagree based on may long years as a software engineer. Some problems I could find very quickly and others took annoyingly long and I only occasionally had a good idea which of those cases a problem would fit based on first learning of the problem. And I've never met anyone that did this significantly better than I could so it just sounds like a hard problem.

The whole point of such a tool is to at least give a crack at solving the problem before having to punt to a real person at customer support which we know means a long effort.

 

[thebart]

Hold the power button, recovery mode, disk utility, wipe, restart, install macOS via internet recovery. Same as before just hold the button vs the keyboard shortcut

Can you install an older version via Internet, like Sequoia?

 

[ASentientBot]

This is incorrect. It is exactly the same on ARM you can wipe the drive fully and even do a security erase. The recovery IS internet recovery exact same as before

No, you're incorrect here. Both Intel and Arm Macs have a ~1 GB recovery volume on-disk, which can download and reinstall a full copy of macOS from Apple's server. This is not internet recovery.

Only Intel Mac firmware can fetch that ~1 GB image and boot from it entirely in RAM, without a working (or present) local disk at all. That's internet recovery.

It's possible to break an Arm Mac's local recovery volume(s) and need a second machine to restore it (like an iPhone), which is never necessary on Intel Macs.