I've seen people suggest Restarting and holding the Command+R keys to go into recovery mode, except when I do that, it never enters recovery mode. It just keeps restarting. I hold them down immediately. I've tried waiting a second. I've tried waiting a bit longer. It never goes into recovery mode.
Anyone have any tips? Is this really the only way to get your password back?
MacBook Air, macOS 14.1
Yup, I sure do, CooperBibaud, do you have an apple silicon Mac or Intel Mac??? What you’ve tried to do will work for an Intel Mac but not for Apple Silicon..
here’s how to get into Recovery mode on a Mac with Apple Silicon :
Use macOS Recovery on a Mac with Apple silicon - Apple Support (CA)
to be sure which kind/one you have, look for an official model number somewhere on the outer case, it looks like this “Axxxx” where the “A” is A and the x’s are 4 numbers/digits.. remember/write down that thing and go to www.Everymac.com and search using that model number, and it’ll tell you everything about that Mac and about pretty much any Mac ever made… handy site…
John B
Yup, I sure do, CooperBibaud, do you have an apple silicon Mac or Intel Mac??? What you’ve tried to do will work for an Intel Mac but not for Apple Silicon..
here’s how to get into Recovery mode on a Mac with Apple Silicon :
Use macOS Recovery on a Mac with Apple silicon - Apple Support (CA)
to be sure which kind/one you have, look for an official model number somewhere on the outer case, it looks like this “Axxxx” where the “A” is A and the x’s are 4 numbers/digits.. remember/write down that thing and go to www.Everymac.com and search using that model number, and it’ll tell you everything about that Mac and about pretty much any Mac ever made… handy site…
John B
Okay so I figured out M2's can turn off their machines, hold the power button down upon boot up to enter Recovery mode. However, now that I'm here, there's still nowhere to change my password. I can change my Apple ID password but not my log-in/admin password.
The list of options I have are:
-Restore from backup
-Reinstall macOS Sonoma
-Safari
-Disk Utility
Recovering MacBook log-in Password
