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Title: How to remove your FileVault recovery key from iCloud
Post by: HCK on September 09, 2018, 04:05:14 pm
How to remove your FileVault recovery key from iCloud

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<p>FileVault offers the fantastic option in macOS to encrypt your entire drive. With modern Macs, starting now several years ago, that whole-disk encryption allows nearly the same performance as with an unencrypted drive due to hardware-based accelerated cryptographic calculations.</p><p>To avoid losing your files forever if you forget your password or lose it from a stored location, macOS offers to either reveal to you a special Recovery Key that you have to make a record of, or—starting with Yosemite—lets you use iCloud to unlock your drive. (There’s a special Mavericks-only option that requires answering security questions; <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204837#turnon" rel="nofollow">read this Apple support note for details[/url], especially the footnote at the end.)</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3302765/security/how-to-remove-your-filevault-recovery-key-from-icloud.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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