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 has used the FileVault name to cover full-disk encryption (often abbreviated FDE) since Mac OS X 10.7 Lion back in 2011. For years, FileVault used a read/write intensive encryption method that ...

Call me paranoid, but I'd like to protect my data in the event of a hard drive failure. I've got an iMac (2011) and it's got a 1 TB HD inside. I'm debating turning ON FileVault. If the hard drive ...

I want to encrypt my Mac HDD as I am using it for work and personal use so I should keep the work stuff safe and want to keep my own personal stuff safe. Is FileVault a good solution? I used to keep a ...

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 ...