The new process, Apple notes, is to be utilized by repair staff in order to recover data from a customer’s machine when it needs a logic board repair and when the logic board is “partially functional.” The company also mentions that the process requires the system to be able to power on.Īccording to the document, Apple repair staff will use a Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to USB-A or Thunderbolt (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C), another host computer, and an external hard drive where the data will be transferred in order to complete the process. These new documents, though, make clear that the introduction of the T2 chip required an entirely new data recovery process, making the port unnecessary. At the time, a teardown by iFixIt led many to believe that the changes in the new models would make data on the SSD “unrecoverable.

The new process was necessitated by the T2 chip’s additional security features, one of which is a hardware encryption for SSD storage that’s not compatible with the data recovery methods Apple used for previous models.Īs we discussed back in July, Apple’s 2018 MacBook Pro featured a few significant changes, one of which was the removal of a small proprietary port used to extract data from the SSD in recovery scenarios. Recently released internal documents from Apple show a new data recovery process for Macs equipped with the company’s T2 chip (specifically, the iMac Pro and 2018 MacBook Pro).

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