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T2 Security chip failure?
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It reads it just fine. It’s just Apple Pay won’t let me add cards. So perhaps resetting SMC is a bad idea?
Do you currently have any cards in your wallet? If not, have you ever had cards in the wallet? Have you recently reinstalled the OS? If you can, post a screen shot of the error.
I do have cards in wallet. No I have not recently installed the OS. Apple Pay used to work just fine and did so for several months.
What happens when you attempt to add a card? Are you positive you are logged into your Apple ID account for Apple Pay?
Although credit card information is stored in the chip, I don't know if resetting the PVRAM or SMC will change anything, as that particular reset function is not mentioned in documents, although there is no harm in trying to reset.
It says” the security settings for your Mac was modified.” I have rebooted into security and the settings are the same as usual. Yes I am logged into my appleid account.
I have been chatting with apple about this and even they are clueless. Some of their reps are not so good and give me iPhone advice when the issue is on a Mac. Apple Pay worked just fine for 3-4 months and prior it did not work until apple released a update to the is and it worked again. Guess I will have to wait.
Are you sure your system is up to date? If so, I would try the PVRAM and SMC reset as Apple Support would probably ask you to do that as a matter of standard protocol. If that didn't work, I would try reinstalling the OS and setting up as new. If that doesn't work, contact Apple Support.
Sounds like a possible OS problem. I would try the steps I just mentioned. As to phone support, many of the people working the lines right now are people that are not normally in that position. That is why you will get inaccurate information.
Yes especially when they give me iPhone advice when the issue is on a Mac. That rep was dumb and got a bad review by me.
If I reinstalled the OS what will I have to reconfigure and what will this do?
If you wipe the drive and reinstall the OS, you will have to go through the full process of setting up your Mac again, just as if it were brand new. Doing a reinstall may not solve your problem. There is no real way to know unless you try.
Well I won’t do that as the issue is not worth it. I can still pay for things and make donations via Apple Pay if my watch or iPhone is around from my Mac. I will wait to hear from apple on Tuesday to see if I should reset SMC or do a plain install. The last time I had this issue the problem got temporarily fixed (3-4 months) after apple released a OS update.
“Security Settings have been modified.”
This sounds like some extra boot arguments have been passed to your kernel, or some security features, like SIP and KEXT signature enforcement may have been turned off.
Maybe you can try checking if SIP is enabled, and try resetting NVRAM to remove any extra boot args.
This sounds like some extra boot arguments have been passed to your kernel, or some security features, like SIP and KEXT signature enforcement may have been turned off.
Maybe you can try checking if SIP is enabled, and try resetting NVRAM to remove any extra boot args.
I reset something. SMC I believe and it's working again. Thanks! Hope it stays working but if it fails in a few months or before I will just try again.
I had this issue after allowing apps to install system extensions. The only way I fix the issue was to use Apple Configurator 2, to restore my MacBook Pro. https://support.apple.com/guide/app...r-restore-an-intel-based-mac-apdebea5be51/mac
If you once disabled the "required security" (which is full boot protection, SIP on, and automatic updates on) even re-enabling them won't allow you to add cards anymore. The system somehow kept track of it. At least that's how it is on my machine.
I guess you have to fully reset the T2 which will also fully reset the SSD and everything on your machine.
I guess you have to fully reset the T2 which will also fully reset the SSD and everything on your machine.