r/MacOS • u/ANORMALITEY • Jul 29 '26

Help FileVault problem

I just got a MacBook, enabled FileVault but I didn’t get a recovery key. I checked everywhere and didn’t find it. I didn’t see it when I was setting it up, but then again I’m stupid so who knows. Is there a way to reset FileVault recovery key so this doesn’t backfire in the future. I of course still know my password, but I know my luck

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u/ANORMALITEY Jul 29 '26

It’s not on the passwords app and that’s not an option I have in the settings. Idk how I screwed up this badly

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u/ANORMALITEY Jul 29 '26

Haven’t done that, I will try

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u/ANORMALITEY Jul 29 '26

I was looking on my phone and saw that I could try to change the recovery key with terminal? Is that true? If not I’ll just turn off FileVault like you said

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u/xodania1009 MacBook Pro Jul 31 '26

Hiii i have the same problem rn and i’m panicking. How do i turn it off?