Can i make the mac boot into the most recent OS?

I have a windows partition and a macos partition. I know that I can chose which is the primary partion for my mac to boot into, but what I really want is to set it up so that it automatically boots into whichever OS i was using most recently. Is this possible? Ive seen this work this way on a hackintosh but it would be a shame if a legit mac counldnt do this..

Posted on Sep 8, 2019 10:26 AM

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Loner T

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Sep 8, 2019 1:13 PM in response to fluffhead

You may want to take a look at rEFInd.

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