How to Boot Into MacOS Recovery in UTM on Apple Silicon Mac

If you’ve put in macOS Sonoma right into a UTM digital machine you might get right into a state of affairs the place you’d both like to revive the VM from a Time Machine backup, and even reinstall Sonoma within the VM, or carry out different actions on the digital machine from Recovery Mode. But, as you seemingly have seen by now, booting into recovery on an Apple Silicon Mac requires holding down the Power button.

If you’ve ever tried to do that inside a UTM digital machine, you’ll shortly discover it doesn’t work – as an alternative, urgent the ability button in the course of the boot sequence will lock the Mac display screen, as urgent the ability button does on all Apple Silicon Macs (M1, M2, M3, and so on included).

How do you boot into macOS recovery mode in UTM? It’s truly fairly straightforward when you learn the way.

How to Boot Into MacOS Recovery Mode in UTM on Apple Silicon Macs

1. Open UTM if you happen to haven’t performed so already, and shut down the MacOS digital machine if its actively working
2. Now right-click on the MacOS VM on the major UTM display screen and select “Run Recovery”



3. In a second, the boot menu will seem, right here you possibly can select “Options”



4. You’ll now be in the usual Recovery Mode display screen within the MacOS VM inside UTM, in a position to make use of Time Machine, reinstall macOS, use Safari, Disk Utility, and so on

All the usual MacOS Recovery Mode choices work inside the UTM digital machine.

Exiting from MacOS Recovery Mode in UTM is solely a matter of rebooting the VM, both by means of UTM, or by means of the  Apple menu within the virtualized MacOS surroundings.

If you didn’t determine this out by yourself, don’t really feel too dangerous. I’ve been a longtime UTM consumer and had tried quite a lot of strategies besides into recovery inside a Apple Silicon MacOS UTM VM unsuccessfully, so I poked across the good outdated Apple net and located this little useful trick from DerFlounder, who factors out that this functionality was added comparatively lately to UTM, which is probably why it didn’t register as current as a characteristic with me by means of the right-click contextual menu.

So, if you happen to’re attempting besides into recovery mode on a MacOS UTM VM on an Apple Silicon Mac, use the right-click trick, and away you go.