Enable Filevault Encryption on Your Mac
0Enable Filevault Encryption on Your Mac.
FileVault is one of those Mac features that you know is there but are never really sure what it’s there for. Apple has never really made a big song and dance about how the feature protects your data or why you should bother with it, so we’re going to do it instead.
FileVault full-disk encryption (FileVault 2) uses XTS-AES-128 encryption with a 256-bit key to help prevent unauthorized access to the information on your startup disk.
This won’t be a literal song and dance, unfortunately, (we don’t have the natural rhythm) but we will tell you all you need to know about FileVault, as well as how and why you should use it. But feel free to sing the words as you read them and dance along at the same time.
Okay, let’s get into it.
Issues addressed in this tutorial:
file vault on mac
file vault conversion in progress
file vault encryption paused
file vault decryption paused
file vault is turned on for the disk Macintosh HD
file vault authentication server failed
file vault add user
file vault authenticated restart
file vault and time machine
file vault add user terminal
file vault benefits
file vault black screen
file vault button does nothing
file vault corrupted
file vault conversion in progress stuck
file vault conversion in progress recovery mode
file vault can't be turned on for the disk
file vault disk encryption
file vault decryption
file vault decryption slow
This tutorial will apply for MacBook Pro, Air, Mini's running the macOS operating system. This tutorial was performed on a macOS Big Sur system.