Locked out of your Mac? You can still get back in without losing important files. Here are all the ways you can regain access to your Mac.

OS 26 introduces Recovery Assistant, a new built-in tool that automatically launches when a Mac fails to start, helping users and IT teams diagnose and fix startup issues without manual intervention.

I had an unbootable macbook pro that needed recovery, and it was powerfully annoying how much worse the recovery options are relative to Intel macs. With an Intel mac I'd expect to be able to do an ...