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How to disable System Integrity Protection (SIP) in macOS Catalina/Mojave/High Sierra?

Updated on Tuesday, December 3, 2024

iBoysoft author Rivers Wong

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Rivers Wong
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Jessica Shee

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Summary: Don't know how to disable System Integrity Protection (SIP) in macOS Catalina/Mojave/High Sierra? Here is an easy tutorial to use Terminal in macOS Recovery for you to disable SIP.

disable System Integrity Protection macOS

"System Integrity Protection" (SIP) is a security mechanism built into the operating system that prevents normal programs from reading the startup drive, so System Integrity Protection would prevent iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac from scanning startup drive in macOS Catalina 10.15, Mojave 10.14 and High Sierra 10.13.

To recover lost data from startup drive in macOS Catalina 10.15, Mojave 10.14 and macOS High Sierra 10.13, we need to temporarily disable SIP.

Disable System Integrity Protection (SIP)

Step 1: Boot to macOS Recovery by restarting your machine and pressing & holding down Command + R keys at startup.

Disable SIP step 1

Step 2: Launch Terminal from the Utilities menu, enter the command: csrutil disable and press Return.

Disable SIP step 2

Enable System Integrity Protection (SIP)

Step 1: Boot to Recovery OS by restarting your machine and pressing and holding down Command + R keys at startup.

Step 2: Launch Terminal from the Utilities menu, enter the command: csrutil enable and press Return

iBoysoft author Rivers Wong
Rivers Wong

Rivers Wong is a technical content creator and optimizer at iBoysoft. After comprehensive and systematic learning of macOS, Windows OS, data security, and storage devices, he is capable of providing informative and helpful articles.

Professional tech editor
Jessica Shee

Jessica Shee is a senior tech editor at iBoysoft. Throughout her 4 years of experience, Jessica has written many informative and instructional articles in data recovery, data security, and disk management to help a lot of readers secure their important documents and take the best advantage of their devices.

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