Apple to Drop Support for Encrypted Mac OS Extended Drives Next Year
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Apple to Drop Support for Encrypted Mac OS Extended Drives Next Year
Apple yesterday published a new support document warning that macOS 28 will no longer support encrypted Mac OS Extended (HFS+) volumes, meaning affected external drives will need to be decrypted or reformatted ahead of the update. Starting with macOS 28, "the Mac OS Extended file system format will be supported only for volumes (disks and other storage devices) that aren't encrypted".
With the upcoming MacOS 28 operating system, Apple is removing support for encrypted drives in the old HFS+ format. Users of older hard drives need to move their data to the modern Apple File System in time. (Continue reading)
In a recently released support document, Apple announced that support for the encrypted format "Mac OS Extended (HFS)" will be discontinued with macOS 28, whose release is scheduled for 2027. This means that users will have to reformat or decrypt all storage media encrypted with "Mac OS Extended (HFS)" in order to use the drive under macOS 28. Apple does not give any reasons for setting "Mac OS Extended" (HFS), but the company has been prioritis…
macOS 28 Will Kill Encrypted HFS+ Drives, Apple Warns Quietly
Apple has published a support document warning that encrypted Mac OS Extended volumes will stop working once macOS 28 arrives, giving owners of older external drives a year to decrypt, reformat, or lose access Read more at macOS 28 Will Kill Encrypted HFS+ Drives, Apple Warns Quietly
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