Your Mac’s boot selection screen should show up after a while. Release the Power or Touch ID button when the message changes to Loading startup options.
You will see a Keep holding to load startup options message appear on your screen. Now press and hold the Power or Touch ID button to reboot your Mac. If you have trouble doing that, forcibly shut it down by holding the Power or the Touch ID button. If you’re using an Apple silicon Mac, you first need to get to the boot selection (or startup options) screen, and then you can enter macOS Recovery from there. So whether your Mac uses an M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, or any other kind of Apple silicon chip, we’ll show you how to boot into macOS Recovery below.īooting Into macOS Recovery With Apple Silicon But that method doesn’t work for the newer crop of Macs that run on Apple silicon chips. On Intel Macs, you could access it simply by holding down Cmd + R during startup.
MacOS Recovery is a special boot mode on your Mac that helps you troubleshoot various software problems.
