Recovery

Hi RobertTheCold,

We understand you need assistance with a Mac. We're happy to help.

To get started, we'd suggest providing more specific detail about the issue. To begin, what is "recovery assistant"? Is this some sort of application you have installed on the computer? Are you talking about starting the computer in recovery mode? Are you getting some sort of error on the computer? Etc.

Details like this will help give the community a better idea of what you're seeing so members can provide more relevant responses.

In the meantime, if you are talking about recovery mode, here's some articles that may be helpful:

About macOS Recovery on Intel-based Mac computers

If your Mac doesn't start up all the way

We look forward to your response. Cheers!

In macOS Catalina and later, when you boot to macOS Recovery, Recovery Assistant first appears and requires an administrator password in order to access the utilities inside (Restore from Time Machine, etc.)

Recovery Assistant will be triggered if any of the following are true:

• FileVault is enabled.
• On Macs with the M1 or T2 Security Chip, Find My Mac is on (which means that Activation Lock is also on).
• The user requested a password reset (usually via the resetpassword command)

If none of the above are true, Recovery Assistant doesn't appear, and the user can immediately access the utilities in macOS Recovery.

Example:

Hi RobertTheCold,

Recovery Assistant is a security mechanism in recoveryOS (macOS Catalina and later), and ensures that only administrators can access macOS Recovery. It also enforces Activation Lock.

Just curious, are you unable to authenticate in Recovery Assistant? Did you forget your password? Are you not listed as an administrator? More details would be very helpful.