FileVault is OS X's built-in data encryption technology, and when enabled, as with an unencrypted OS X volume you simply enter your account credentials to get into your system. However, given Apple ...

Apple’s first pass at built-in encryption was, frankly, terrible. The original FileVault, introduced with 10.3 Panther in 2003, only encrypted a user’s home directory, and had a number of functional ...

Apple's FileVault technology is a method of automatically encrypting your files so you do not have to worry about data theft should your system be stolen. In its first iteration FileVault was just ...

If you keep a lot of valuable information on your Mac, encrypting it will help you keep the data safe. Apple’s built-in FileVault disk encryption on macOS is an effective way to do this. But what ...

Apple can be crafty. Just ask Google. But I’m not here to write about corporation-on-corporation smackdowns. Rather, I’m referring to a Mac OS X trick that pairs FileVault 2 with iCloud’s Find My Mac ...

FileVault 2, Apple's encryption program, offers data protection for the whole disk in an efficient method that is simple to implement and seamless to the user. Learn more about Apple's FileVault 2.

When Mac OS X 10.7 Lion introduced full disk encryption, called FileVault 2, it was a huge improvement over the original FileVault, which only encrypts a user’s home folder. And because of the ...

In his review of macOS 26 Tahoe at Ars Technica, Andrew Cunningham writes: One other tweak to the install process is the default behavior for Apple’s FileVault disk encryption. If you sign in to an ...