{"id":31153,"date":"2020-12-30T16:36:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T21:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31153"},"modified":"2021-06-30T16:35:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T20:35:57","slug":"no-more-big-sur-internet-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/30\/no-more-big-sur-internet-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Big Sur Internet Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr. Macintosh<\/a> (tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Starting in early December, macOS Big Sur Internet Recovery was replaced by Catalina as the newest version available.<\/p>\n

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Why did Apple make this change? I didn’t report on this earlier because I figured it was a server side issue. Apple would probably fix it pretty quickly. The problem is it’s been almost a month now. Could this be a permanent change or is Big Sur Internet Recovery still having issues?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

That’s the situation for Intel Macs. Apple Silicon Macs don’t support Internet Recovery at all, nor can they boot from many common external USB drives.<\/p>\n\n

Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Macs running on Apple silicon are pretty great<\/a>. But whenever there’s a major hardware transition, many wise people point out that it’s safer to wait rather than rushing in, because there are always growing pains.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n