Recovery key -- too many digits

I am trying to unlock my MacBook Pro

with a recovery key. But the key has hyphens between the 28 digits and is therefore too long. How can I eliminate the hyphens?

MacBook Pro (2020 and later)

Posted on May 31, 2021 7:18 AM

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May 31, 2021 9:04 PM in response to carin162

Hi carin162,

Just to clarify, where are you trying to unlock your internal drive from?

The login window?

macOS Recovery?

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