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Title: How to fix network recovery and FileVault features blocked by clock problem
Post by: HCK on September 11, 2020, 04:05:11 pm
How to fix network recovery and FileVault features blocked by clock problem

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<p>Sometimes Apple needs your Mac to know exactly what time it is. Most people leave their Macs set to the default setting in which the time is set via a network server that keeps it up to date down to the second. But you may have turned that feature off, reset the clock manually to check something or prevent a date-based expiration, or have a hardware problem that’s causing a glitch. (Some Macs include long-lived battery cells <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063" rel="nofollow">designed to keep the clock ticking[/url] and preserve other settings.)</p><p>If your Mac doesn't know the proper time, you may have trouble with your Apple ID and iCloud syncing, be unable to log in to the App Store or download updates, have your Mac say it can’t connect to servers when in <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314" rel="nofollow">macOS Recovery[/url], or have the process fail for recovering a lost FileVault key when you’ve allowed it to be stored in your iCloud account.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3532271/how-to-fix-network-recovery-and-filevault-features-blocked-by-clock-problem.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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