In Ventura open System Settings > Users & Groups.Select the account you do know the password to.
Either restart the Mac, or if it is logged in click on the Apple logo and choose Log Out.Note the process is a little different depending on which version of macOS you are using. Follow these steps to reset your Mac password from another account. If you know (or can find out) the password to another account for the Mac you can use this account to reset your password. This may not always work, in which case you have two other options.Do you share the Mac with another person – some people do, in these days of remote working and hot-desking – and do they have their own account? Is there an administrator who looks after your work Mac? An IT guy (or girl) who might be able to log on? Or do you have a different user account on the Mac that you do know the password to? The only problem here is that if the other user doesn’t have Admin rights on the Mac they will not be able to change the password for you. Hold down Command-R at startup (Option by itself won’t work on a FileVault-protected Mac), and then erase the FileVault partition using Disk Utility, and then reinstall macOS. Wrote up an extensive blog entry on the recovery process in 2015 that remains valuable.)Įrase via Recovery. Apple hasįull instructions at the bottom of this page, but it requires that you either cached your password in iCloud-which doesn’t work for another party who doesn’t have access to your account-or the person who enabled FileVault created a recovery key that they can provide to you. If you don’t have a valid password, you can try to recover one. However, each email I’ve received sounded fully plausible, and most had personal details attached.) (Now if I were suspicious, I’d wonder if the emails I’ve received were from people who had obtained systems illegitimately, and were trying to crack into them or reformat a system that they’d potentially obtained through another party who might not have had full authority to give it to them.
You can recover a lost FileVault password or erase a FileVault drive, losing everything but regaining the ability to use the system.
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