This is especially true for portable Mac users, who need to worry about their Macs being lost or stolen. Full disk encryption has been a boon for Mac users who worry about their personal data being easily accessible on their Macs or external drives.

The tradition lives on with macOS High Sierra, so we’re gathering a list of what High Sierra broke and how to fix it (when you can).Įncrypting an entire drive to add a level of security has been an easy task in the Mac OS ever since FileVault 2 was released as part of OS X Lion. It seems with each new version of the Mac operating system, there are some features that just don’t seem to work the way they used to.

It’s almost become a tradition one that we wish we didn’t have to put up with.