If there’s one thing I don’t like about Apple, it’s how they can absolutely screw things up. Use Apple Silicon once resetting a MacBook, or a desktop. You get taken to the thing where you have to, activate your Mac, which includes connecting a damn Internet cable or using wireless connection, Ironically, you can’t even access the option to connect to wireless network with that screan . Then you would need a USB-C to network adapter for MacBook laptop, so at the end of the day Apple just made it more difficult and complicated for Apple and Blind People. What’s you people thoughts
By Dominic, 18 August, 2023
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Perhaps you used dictation to do it?
If so, and given your somewhat chequered track record with dictation, it probably thinks you want to know the way to the beach.
A VoiceOver bug
Hello,
first of all, please for the love of god don't write your titles and posts in such an annoying way, unless the goal is not to get the help from anybody, in which case you could also just write your frustrations in a text editor.
Second, this is a VoiceOver bug. The WiFi menu used to come up with Vo+M twice on that screen, but it no longer does. It's in the top right corner, you may be able to just activate it using your TrackPad. If not, get someone sighted to do it, it should take them a second, and since that point everything should work.
A Simple Workaround Until This Bug is Resolved
hi there,
There's an easy workaround for this menubar bug which had been present for awhile. I sold a MacBook Pro and took advantage of Erase Assistant to simply clear my data with a click, the workaround here is to do the following:
1. Touch and slide your finger towards the upper right hand side of the trackpad and click down. More likely than not you'll reach an option on a menubar, from here you could use left or right arrow keys until Wi-Fi menu appears.
2. Use Be My Eyes or free 5 minute AIRA to have a visual interpreter or volunteer point your mouse over to the wifi icon.
Hope this helps!
Bring it to someone who knows what the ***
When will you own up to the fact, you are in over your head? I messed up. No one judges, but your poor choice of asking for help, your decision not to understand, I need to take a better look at how I post, suggests a wicked ton of I don't give a *** Now... First, if that Aira call or be my eyes, I'd use Aira because they have an NDA doesn't work, be polite, ask for help. say hey I tried something, i need help. Will you though? If you admit that, bring back my dead Mom would you? Seriously, please, learn how to access adults sites as an adult. However old you are.
Erase Assistant
Did you factory reset your Mac from within macOS, or by erasing your disk and reinstalling the operating system using macOS Recovery? When I used Erase Assistant to factory reset my 2018 MacBook Air from within macOS, it prompted me to first enter my Apple ID password, releasing activation lock and thus eliminating the need to authenticate in the pre-boot environment.
Do you know if this issue…
Do you know if this issue occurs if activation lock has been released via Erase Assistant from within macOS?
Activation lock
Utan reason it won’t let me to collect the Wi-Fi network to continue to erase completely
Confirm: Resetting via Erase Assistance won't help!
About 6 months ago, got a new MacBook M2 as an update from my 10 year old MacBook Air. Did a factory reset right after I received it using the Erase Assistance feature found in the System Settings App. Although far as I can tell, there is no activation lock to be release, and even if there is, the in-built Erase Assistance should've released it prior, the Wifi connection verification screen still happened to me. Really gave me a fright back then. It was so so lucky for me that the trackpad fiddling did work in the end. Couldn't really remember if the trick to click on an extras-menu option and then using the left/right arrow key as @Seyoon Choi described above had helped, or if I had to actually drag my finger gradually leftward from the far right and clicking every so often that did the trick. But gosh! I just can't find the energy to try testing it again 😥.
the solution is:
turn off the the machine
press and hold for about 10 seconds the power/ Touch I D button until the machine completely turn off and turn back on
voiceOver will launch at assistant window
press VO + M twice and connect to the WIFi
from the disk utility re install Mac OS
this process apply for apple silicon only, using silicon machine never will loos speech if something goes wrong :)
for Intel machine actually is harder because if something goes wrong through the process will loos speech.
I remember this being a…
I remember this being a thing on the Intel machines, but when I had to reset my Macbook Air m1, it didn't do anything crazy like that.