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Enabling Find My Mac Might Not Work if Recovery Drive Is Damaged or Missing

4:29 PM EDT, Apr 5th, 2017 · Jeff Butts · Quick Tip

Enabling Find My Mac doesn't always work at first

When Jeff Butts was playing around with resetting his firmware and checking the status of Find My Mac, he discovered a deeper problem: the feature depends on a valid and up-to-date recovery drive. Follow along with Jeff to learn how to get past a grayed-out Find My Mac checkbox.

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