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I have a 16" 2021 MacBook with M1 Max chip. I needed to erase it because of some problems I ran into. Once it rebooted and I selected the language it needs to be activated. It says to select a WiFi network from the WiFi icon at the top right of the menu bar. But there is no WiFi icon there. There is a battery icon and a select input icon (to select alphabet.) And that's it.
How do I get the WiFi menu to appear?
Thanks,
Judy
It is May 24th, 2022 and the same issue just happened to me. I hard reset my mac to factory settings and was stuck on the "activate mac" page with no wifi menu bar popping up and no wifi symbol in the top right corner. Luckily the apple support man I spoke to walked me through this problem after an hour of solutions. If you are stuck on the activate mac page with no wifi bar in top right corner: You first hold down the power button until it turns off, Keep holding it do not let go until words pop up on the screen it will say something like "loading start up menu" keep holding the power button still until the gear icon (system button) pops up, click on that, I think if I remember correctly it then says continue, just follow the next steps then the wifi symbol will eventually appear in top right corner. Connect to wifi and you will have to download the update again back onto ur mac, mine was MacOs Montery. I selected that and it took about an hour for it to download on my computer.
called Apple support and it turns out the WIFI icon was in the top right corner but blacked out. Machine was in a bright space so I couldn’t see the icon. It worked when I clicked on it.
Thanks, that’s the ONLY thing that helped me, nothing else listed here worked. Thanks a lot!
faced the same issue and came up with a solution shut down your system and long press the power button then. you can see the wifi icons connect and active your mac.
Thank you SO MUCH!! This post saved me from crying! It worked!!
Tried all of the above, this was the fix for me. 10/10.
Merci 🙏🏽 ça marche
this didn't help for me for some reason, I got the same screen with no wifi option!
This was very helpful and worked perfectly for me.
I don’t have enough words to thank you.Thank you very much you solved my problem
It worked. Thank u sir!
I tried literally EVERYTHING of the other answers only this one worked
You are a life saver thank you so very much !!!
May you live a long happy life :)
worked for me!
Only one thing really helped. When you shut down your Mac lets click turn on button once and immediately click once again and hold until you see the loading description
This solved the problem! Thank you!!!
Activate Mac -- no WiFi menu to select network
