
How to restart a mac thats locked mac#
My Mac is encrypted and have multiple partitions, if that is important. Now suddenly a happy guy - New Jersey / USA.Ĭlass assignment due on Nov 10 and my MBAir is safe now. "option+command+R" -> because of this i was able to get back my "4 digit pin unlock text box" since i didn't try them before going to apple store, i can't be sure what expertise the guy brought to this situation. Long story short, don't know if apple store guy did reset the firmware lock, but my situation was only solved by this two steps at home. Tried NVRAM reset "option+command+P+R" while restarting again, I could see reset flicker and restart screen.and behold, the user login screen appeared.hurray :) read some stuff on internet, tried internet recovery "option+command+R" while restarting before chime.after that i could see again "pin unlock" to enter the pin. Came back home, tried after the time passed, no result.Ĩ. I was not believing him at all at that point!ħ. He told if it did not work after 60 mins, then it could not be fixed anywhere. The fact that it is still showing locked from my iPhone, I was not convinced. Your Mac will restart immediately. 'Step 3, Click on 'Restart' once again when asked to confirm that you want to restart your computer. And he was hoping i could now login, that didn't happen. Step 1, Click on the Apple logo located within the toolbar of your Mac.Step 2, Click on 'Restart. The iPhone X has a unique way for you to force it to restart if it's locked up, and this method is different from all of the other iPhone models except the 8 and 8 Plus.
How to restart a mac thats locked password#
came back after some 20mins and told me that the firmware password was unlocked.ĥ. The guy told he is going to unlock firmware lock from backend apple servers.Ĥ. explained him that i could not unlock using my known pin from icloud, he said that "should have worked".ģ. Showed up at the store nov 7 eve, Had with me my purchase record (lucky, had my email)and photo id for verification.
Fixed an appointment with apple genius bar - Nov 6 nightĢ. Option+command+P+R" -> pin window gone to ashes, straight to user account login screen.ġ.

"option+command+R" -> because of this i was able to get back my "4 digit pin unlock text box". Nothing worked and finally i saw this message " Wrong password" and no text box to enter pin at all after 1 hr waiting.each time. every wrong try was penalized, i had to wait and restart again. /rebates/&.com252fmac-os252fhow-to-bypass-mac-activation-lock. Man, it was frustrating and i was panicked when i could not unlock using the same "4 digit" pin that i had entered while locking the mac from my iPhone. I did face similar issue on with my existing Mac Book Air 2012 model when I got my new iPhone 6+ and was "testing" iCloud mac locate/lock feature.
