I can't put my MacBook into recovery mode. Its. 2017 MacBook and when I put it into recovery mode it goes directly to connect to wifi and then pops up with an error. Pops up error code. (Support.apple.com/mac/startup) -3001F Is it not allowing me to do it because it's not a private wifi? Im at the airport and was just trying to erase my Mac.
MacBook, macOS 13.5
Cjones918 wrote:
Is it not allowing me to do it because it's not a private wifi? Im at the airport and was just trying to erase my Mac.
That is most likely the reason.
A better option would be to create a bootable macOS USB installer using the instructions in this Apple article:
Create a bootable installer for macOS - Apple Support
This would only require a simple download one time while Internet Recovery Mode is a much more complicated process which must have an a good fast network without having the required services being blocked...a public network probably is not a good option.
Cjones918 wrote:
Is it not allowing me to do it because it's not a private wifi? Im at the airport and was just trying to erase my Mac.
That is most likely the reason.
A better option would be to create a bootable macOS USB installer using the instructions in this Apple article:
Create a bootable installer for macOS - Apple Support
This would only require a simple download one time while Internet Recovery Mode is a much more complicated process which must have an a good fast network without having the required services being blocked...a public network probably is not a good option.
Recovery Mode won't connect to wifi
