Apples Password App ....... Not Safe!!!

[Pinkpoison]

Just thinking out loud here, but if your Mac is going in for a purely hardware repair, could you not just remove your hard drive and tell the tech that they will have to use their own boot drive to test it allowing them in without access to your data?

I'm not sure anyone would want to go those lengths, I certainly wouldn't .....

 

[scifan57]

Just thinking out loud here, but if your Mac is going in for a purely hardware repair, could you not just remove your hard drive and tell the tech that they will have to use their own boot drive to test it allowing them in without access to your data?

The SSD chips on a Mac with Apple Silicon are soldered directly to the logic board.

 

[carolineM]

Just thinking out loud here, but if your Mac is going in for a purely hardware repair, could you not just remove your hard drive and tell the tech that they will have to use their own boot drive to test it allowing them in without access to your data?

I would not want to remove the hard drive from my MacBook!

 

[Pinkpoison]

I would not want to remove the hard drive from my MacBook!

Me neither even if it were possible

 

[scifan57]

Just thinking out loud here, but if your Mac is going in for a purely hardware repair, could you not just remove your hard drive and tell the tech that they will have to use their own boot drive to test it allowing them in without access to your data?

Another solution would be to make a Time Machine backup of your MacBook Pro, then restore your Mac to factory settings. After getting it back from service you can restore your Mac from the Time Machine backup.