Circle with a line through it

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Learn what to do if your Mac starts up to a circle with a line through it (prohibitory symbol).

• Patience may be a virtue, but in the case of Mac OS X's dreaded spinning pinwheel process indicator, even the most tranquil users can find themselves more than a tad anxious for the standard arrow.
• It basically only allows two backing store factors: 1.0 and 2.0. If it's 1.0, a pixel is a pixel and the app just draws as it traditionally would. If it's 2.0 (what apple calls HiDPI mode), then a pixel is backed by a 2x2 group of pixels in the backing store and the app needs to draw stuff at 2x its original size (in every dimension) to achieve.

A wristwatch was the first wait cursor in early versions of the classic Mac OS.Apple's HyperCard first popularized animated cursors, including a black-and-white spinning quartered circle resembling a beach ball.The beach-ball cursor was also adopted to indicate running script code in the HyperTalk-like AppleScript.The cursors could be advanced by repeated HyperTalk invocations of 'set. If you have just transferred your software and data to a new MacBook or MacBook Proand are having troubles with two-finger gestures, then entering the following command in the Terminal should re-enable it: defaults write -g com.apple.trackpad.scrollBehavior 2.

Question mark

Learn what to do if your Mac starts up to a question mark.

Options with a gear icon

Learn what to do if your Mac starts up to Options with a gear icon.

Blank (empty) screen

Learn what to do if your Mac starts up to a blank screen, such as an empty gray, black, or blue screen.

Apple logo

Learn what to do if your Mac starts up to an Apple logo or progress bar.

Globe with alert symbol

A globe with an exclamation point means that your Mac tried to start up from macOS Recovery over the Internet, but couldn't. Learn what to do if your Mac can't start up from macOS Recovery.

Lock icon

If your Mac is using a firmware password, the lock icon appears when you try to start up from another disk or volume, such as an external drive or macOS Recovery. Enter the firmware password to continue.

System lock PIN code

Your Mac asks for a PIN code when it has been remotely locked using Find My. Enter the four-digit or six-digit passcode to continue.

Login window

At the login window, enter your user account password to log in to your Mac. If FileVault is turned on, this also unlocks your disk. You might see a default desktop picture in the background, which might change to your chosen desktop picture when you select your account.

Thunderbolt, USB, or FireWire symbol

A large Thunderbolt , USB , or FireWire symbol against a dark background means that your Mac is in target disk mode.

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• Learn what to do if your Mac displays a message that it restarted because of a problem.
• When starting up from Windows using Boot Camp, your Mac doesn't show an Apple logo or the other macOS screens in this article.