You can go even further and turn off the need to enter your password every time you open your Mac or turn it on.
If that doesn’t work, try deleting the downloaded installer (it’s in your Applications folder) using CleanMyMac and download it again.
Here’s how to fix the most common High Sierra issues. While most new versions of macOS are relatively problem-free, it’s not unknown for users to have issues – particularly with a beta or. Don’t have a Setapp subscription? Click here to sign up. You can use, for example, Get Backup Pro, which comes with your Setapp subscription. You can use any backup tool you like – Apple obviously favours Time Machine, but you don’t have to use it.
If things go disastrously wrong at least you’ll be able to boot from macOS’ Recovery partition and migrate all your data back to your Mac. If you haven’t started the process of upgrading yet, check if the Mac is compatible with macOS High Sierra and make a bootable backup.ĭo it now, before you do anything else.
I cannot boot into safe mode, possibly (?) due to administrative restrictions (company laptop).The excitement of installing a new version of macOS, especially if its a High Sierra 10.13, is only tempered by the possibility of it not working properly or not being compatible with the apps you use most.īefore you begin upgrade to macOS make a bootable backup I've tried the linked question's terminal command without success: defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool trueĪlso, there's a comment in the discussion suggesting rebooting in safe mode and changing some keyboard settings might do the trick. That is much more efficient in my opinions and therefore it is better UX. I don't want to use ⌥ key with u for ¨, i for ^, e for ´ etc., which I fail to remember and is slower than simply holding to reveal any character variations. This is not what I want, because I'm used to the character picker. However, when such a key is held, the character is repeatedly entered. I have a similar problem as the asker in this question on Apple's forum.Īfter I updated from Sierra to High Sierra (v10.13.3) on a MBP retina 13" mid 2014, I noticed the character picker (special character pop-up) that appear when long pressing / holding a character, e.g.