How to fix Recovery server could not be contacted | MacOS [SOLVED]

[Music] foreign [Music] Tech YouTube channel in this video I will show you how to solve the recovery server connection error in Mac OS now these days all laptops come with genuine operating systems in the windows system it comes with a recovery drive for formatting and doing a fresh install for your genuine Windows operating system if it is corrupted or facing any OS related issues in Mac systems it comes with genuine Mac OS but it doesn't have any recovery partition so when you want to do a fresh install for your Mac you need to sign into the cloud recovery server for getting a genuine copy of your Mac OS but sometimes it's very difficult to connect to the recovery server and do an install the most common issue while trying to connect to the recovery server is the recovery server could not be contacted in this video we will show you how to solve this error the most common reason for this error is poor internet connection or no connectivity the date and time in your Mac OS are not synchronized with the Apple server problem with the Apple recovery server itself solutions to solve this error check your internet connectivity check your modem lights indication and make sure you have an active internet connection in your modem restart the modem also disconnect and reconnect the Wi-Fi connection or change the Wi-Fi connection from a currently connected Network to a new connection next solution solution number two check your date and time we need to sync the date and time with the Apple server if you are in Mac OS utility go to utilities and open Terminal or you can open Launchpad and go to others folder and open the terminal from there open Terminal and type the following commands and T the date space hyphen space time.apple.com and press enter Then type your administrator password this will sync your date and time with the Apple server automatically if it doesn't work then type the correct date and time in the following format date space mmddhhd s s y y for example if you want to set your date and time to the 22nd of February 22 10 10 the m in the year 2021. then type date space 0 2 2 2 2 1 0 1 0 2 1. press enter Then type your administrator password this will help you to set the correct date and time solution number three next method is to check the Apple system server status search Apple status in Google and open the support system status link from Apple website check any red indication in the status list if any red indication in the recovery server then please wait until Apple fix it after that we'll try again to connect to the recovery server do a clean install of Mac OS using a bootable USB drive please check the link in the description to find out how to create a bootable Mac OS pendrive and do a clean install all the links used in this video are given in the description box hope you like this tutorial it will help leave a comment if you have any questions please share with your friends and do subscribe and enable the Bell icon for getting all notifications from future videos thanks for watching see you in the next video and have a nice day

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Id: keYi47OKlkI

Length: 3min 51sec (231 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 23 2023