It’s a fairly widespread expertise to must obtain and set up an enormous working system replace because the very very first thing while you unbox your model new gadget. It’s not nice, particularly when the setup and restore course of is already a prolonged one and also you simply wish to use your new Mac already.
Apple has an answer for that with iPhones. A system referred to as “Presto” in Apple shops can wirelessly replace an iPhone and apply the newest software program replace whereas it’s nonetheless sealed within the field and hasn’t gone by way of setup but. In response to 9to5Mac, code within the newest macOS 26 beta 3 replace means that Apple is making ready the same system for MacBooks.
It’s not precisely clear how this could work, nevertheless. iPhones use wi-fi charging to provide energy and NFC to set off the replace, putting sealed-in-box iPhones in a particular six-slot “toaster” gadget to round half an hour to use updates. MacBooks have neither wi-fi energy nor NFC, so one wonders how the replace course of can be triggered. Maybe the identical Bluetooth LE beacon characteristic that permits iPhones to be discovered with Discover My even when turned off, may be added to MacBooks and used for this function?
Nevertheless Apple intends to implement this characteristic, shopping for a Mac with the newest macOS replace—or a minimum of crucial last-minute updates—already put in can be a boon for customers.
