Lockdown is greyed out in Mac Sonoma, M2 silicon mac mini

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Lockdown is greyed out in Mac Sonoma, M2 silicon mac mini

Can anyone help? Lockdown mode is greyed out and cannot be enabled. I suspect this is because I used it earlier in Ventura. Problem history:

Mac Ventura came installed on the mac mini (great computer!). I tried out lockdown mode which seemed to work OK.

The notice to update to sonoma arrived. I turned the lockdown mode off for the upgrade.

I went to enable lockdown mode again in system settings and the button is greyed out. Given that this got stuck it is probably as well that I disabled it before the upgrade.

Any ideas how to make this work? Here is the settings panel

more details on the mac follow:

All ideas welcome!! Thanks

Al

#M2Pro #Sonoma #LockdownMode

MacBook Pro (M2 Pro, 2023)

Posted on Sep 27, 2023 6:26 AM

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wintergardensbassplayer Author

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Oct 11, 2023 10:40 AM in response to wintergardensbassplayer

Hi everyone

I have a result on this, or at least an explanation. According to Apple support (thanks to Leroy Douglas for suggesting this), lockdown mode only works when your user account is an administrator.

I have raised an Apple feedback/bug report comment questioning this as it seems odd that you need to be an administrator before you can take advantage of lockdown mode.

This is because you have escalated your privileges before then turning them down using lockdown mode. It also means that this setting is not available for standard user accounts.

Thanks to everybody who has contributed to this.

Best wishes

Alex

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leroydouglas

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Sep 27, 2023 8:55 AM in response to wintergardensbassplayer

wintergardensbassplayer wrote:

Can anyone help? Lockdown mode is greyed out and cannot be enabled. I suspect this is because I used it earlier in Ventura. Problem history:

Mac Ventura came installed on the mac mini (great computer!). I tried out lockdown mode which seemed to work OK.

The notice to update to sonoma arrived. I turned the lockdown mode off for the upgrade.

I went to enable lockdown mode again in system settings and the button is greyed out. Given that this got stuck it is probably as well that I disabled it before the upgrade.

Any ideas how to make this work? Here is the settings panel

see if there is anything here—

About Lockdown Mode

How to Use Lockdown Mode on Mac

A SafeBoot Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies

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leroydouglas

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Sep 27, 2023 10:25 AM in response to wintergardensbassplayer

wintergardensbassplayer wrote:

Hi Leroy

Thanks for the message. Alas nothing there. I didn't know about the safe boot mode (I should have as I supported Macs 20+ years ago) so tried that without success. It's probably something that I need a shell script to resolve. Many thanks for taking the time to make the suggestions!

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Sep 27, 2023 10:21 AM in response to leroydouglas

Hi Leroy

Thanks for the message. Alas nothing there. I didn't know about the safe boot mode (I should have as I supported Macs 20+ years ago) so tried that without success. It's probably something that I need a shell script to resolve. Many thanks for taking the time to make the suggestions!

: - )

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