Users who rely on encrypted HFS+ drives will no longer need to decrypt them before converting them to APFS for macOS 28 compatibility. Here’s what that means.
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Update, July 22: Apple has updated the support document to clarify that users can convert encrypted HFS+ volumes directly to encrypted APFS without decrypting them first. You can learn more about that here. The original story follows below.
Apple has announced that starting with macOS 28, users will need to decrypt or reformat certain storage volumes to keep using them. Here are the details.
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