Macs With Apple Silicon Will Get New macOS Recovery Features

New Macs with Apple Silicon will feature revamped macOS boot and recovery features, based on iPhone and iPad Secure Boot. Although information technology uses the same boot procedure, it has been enhanced for Mac and volition back up multiple macOS installs, multiple versions of macOS, and recovery flows.

Advanced boot options such every bit holding down shortcut keys to kicking into recovery fashion, target deejay style, or single-user way, will work without remembering whatsoever shortcut keys. All these start-ups keys will exist replaced with user interface interactions. Users will only need to press and hold the power button, or Affect ID push, on their Mac to bring up the new Startup options. Users volition still be able to apply shortcut keys when the new Startup options load, but they volition not demand to printing and hold any combination of keys to boot into a particular way.

macOS Recovery on Apple Silicon Macs will also feature two new features chosen Mac Sharing Style and Startup Disk. Mac Sharing Manner will replace Target Deejay Style and utilize SMB file sharing to allow access to user information. Startup Deejay will allow selecting full or reduced security modes for the various disks in a Mac. Full security mode will provide the same security features that you get on an iPhone, while supporting booting from external disk. This will be the default mode in Apple Silicon Macs. Meanwhile, reduced security style volition let users to install whatsoever uniform version of macOS, and notarized 3rd-party kernel extensions.

Contrary to speculations that Apple will exist locking down the Mac through the introduction of Apple Silicon, the company shared that it will allow users to disable Secure Kick, Root Book Authentication, and Arrangement Integrity Protection.

Apple shared these details, and more than, in a session during WWDC 2020 called 'Explore the new system architecture of Apple tree Silicon Macs'. The session went into details of how Apple Silicon differs from Intel processors on an architecture level and the modern features and advantages it will bring to the Mac. Apple Silicon will employ a unified memory architecture for CPU and GPU, assuasive apps to proceeds performance and security benefits every bit long as they utilize Metal and other Apple frameworks.