is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. If you downloaded and installed the macOS Monterey public ...

Mac OS X Lion recovery partition. Apple’s new Mac OS X Lion adds support for a recovery partition as part of the OS installation and while this may not seem important to most users — it is. Apple is ...

Along with the shift to Apple Silicon, performing things like a restore is different with M1 Macs compared to their Intel predecessors. Follow along for a look at how to revive and restore M1 Macs, ...

All modern Macs with Apple silicon feature a built-in recovery system called macOS Recovery that includes various utilities that can be accessed before your Mac boots up the operating system. This ...

60847: Apple Software Restore: How to Perform a Multiple Disc Restoration describes how to use the multiple Restore discs (that apparently come with new Macs that have OS X preinstalled) to do a ...

A major feature that debuted in Lion (OS X 10.7) and continues in Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) is one I hope you’ll never need to use: recovery mode, officially called OS X Recovery. (It was called Lion ...

Apple Software Restore lets you clone your Mac even with a Signed System Volume. Here's how to use it to copy your Mac's storage. For a variety of reasons, you may want to make a clone of your Startup ...

Warning: If you own a Mac with an M3 Ultra chip, don't be like me. Hold off on upgrading to Tahoe. Here's why.

To restart an Intel Mac in Recovery Mode, hold Command+R when the computer restarts. For Apple Silicon Macs, press and hold the power button until startup options show on the screen. Recovery Mode ...