{"id":30951,"date":"2020-12-08T16:54:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T21:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30951"},"modified":"2021-06-30T16:36:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T20:36:04","slug":"reviving-or-restoring-a-mac-with-apple-silicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/08\/reviving-or-restoring-a-mac-with-apple-silicon\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviving or Restoring a Mac With Apple Silicon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/guide\/apple-configurator-2\/revive-or-restore-a-mac-with-apple-silicon-apdd5f3c75ad\/mac\">Apple<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/guide\/apple-configurator-2\/revive-or-restore-a-mac-with-apple-silicon-apdd5f3c75ad\/mac\"><p>The revive or restore processes involve the following steps:<\/p><p>1. Launching Apple Configurator 2 on the second Mac and connecting the Mac computers<\/p><p>2. Restarting the Mac using a special key sequence<\/p><p>3. Using Apple Configurator 2 to do one of the following:<\/p><ul><li><p><em>Revive<\/em> the firmware and reinstall the latest version of recoveryOS.<\/p><\/li><li><p><em>Restore<\/em> the firmware, erase all data, and reinstall the latest version of recoveryOS and macOS.<\/p><\/li><\/ul><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mrmacintosh.com\/apple-silicon-m1-full-macos-restore-ipsw-firmware-files-database\/\">Mr. Macintosh<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mrmacintosh.com\/apple-silicon-m1-full-macos-restore-ipsw-firmware-files-database\/\"><p>Now that Apple Silicon Macs are arriving in users hands, we can now start to rebuild with Apple Configurator 2 and IPSW files just like iOS! This page will be a database of all macOS IPSW Files.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sneak.berlin\/20201204\/on-trusting-macintosh-hardware\/\">Jeffrey Paul<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=25321053\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sneak.berlin\/20201204\/on-trusting-macintosh-hardware\/\"><p>If you wish to fully and completely restore these systems to their factory state for whatever reason, be it a virus or malware, reverting a testing or research configuration, preparing for resale, disk data corruption, whatever[&#8230;]. The only way to do this is to obtain a cryptographic signature from Apple, specific to that hardware. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Freely <em>over the internet<\/em>, that is.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>To repurpose these machines, or to audit\/verify them, the steps are repeated: dump their data, wipe them fully, verify their firmware, reinstall from cryptographically verified media. (Optionally, audit to ensure that the data dumps are what they are expected to be.)<\/p>\n<p>This is now impossible on any modern mac (and 100% of all recent macs with decent keyboards).<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>This means that the machine can potentially be tampered with by Apple (or anyone who can coerce Apple), on a system-by-system basis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>And you depend on Apple&rsquo;s server <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/13\/apple-server-outage-makes-mac-apps-hang-on-launch\/\">being operational<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2020\/11\/28\/startup-modes-for-m1-macs\/\">Startup modes for M1 Macs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mrmacintosh.com\/how-to-reinstall-macos-on-your-apple-silicon-mac-everything-you-need-to-know\/\">How to Reinstall macOS on your Apple Silicon Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twocanoes.com\/booting-to-macos-recovery-and-diagnostics-mode\/\">Recovery Selector<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/02\/boot-and-recovery-mode-on-apple-silicon-macs\/\">Boot and Recovery Mode on Apple Silicon Macs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/12\/how-to-restore-bridgeos-on-your-t2-mac\/\">How to Restore BridgeOS on Your T2 Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/28\/how-to-reinstall-macos\/\">How to Reinstall macOS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"reviving-or-restoring-a-mac-with-apple-silicon-update-2020-12-10\">Update (2020-12-10): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/isaiah\/status\/1336536129911263232\">Isaiah Carew<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/isaiah\/status\/1336536129911263232\"><p>this is why i can&rsquo;t update my apple dev kit. my account status has an unexpected &ldquo;state&rdquo;. the update utility that is supposed to be grabbing the cert or whatever from apple crashes immediately after i authenticate.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple: The revive or restore processes involve the following steps:1. Launching Apple Configurator 2 on the second Mac and connecting the Mac computers2. Restarting the Mac using a special key sequence3. Using Apple Configurator 2 to do one of the following:Revive the firmware and reinstall the latest version of recoveryOS.Restore the firmware, erase all data, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-12-08T21:55:00Z","apple_news_api_id":"886474b1-3fa1-440c-9086-47d06f484073","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-06-30T20:36:08Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AiGR0sT-hRAyQhkfQb0hAcw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1850,2014,30,1891,2088],"class_list":["post-30951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-configurator","tag-apple-m1","tag-mac","tag-macos-11-0","tag-macos-recovery"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30968,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30951\/revisions\/30968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}