It’s a reasonably widespread expertise to should obtain and set up an enormous working system replace because the very very first thing if you unbox your model new machine. 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 known as “Presto” in Apple shops can wirelessly replace an iPhone and apply the most recent software program replace whereas it’s nonetheless sealed within the field and hasn’t gone by setup but. In keeping with 9to5Mac, code within the newest macOS 26 beta 3 replace means that Apple is making ready an identical system for MacBooks.
It’s not precisely clear how this could work, nonetheless. iPhones use wi-fi charging to produce energy and NFC to set off the replace, inserting sealed-in-box iPhones in a particular six-slot “toaster” machine to round half an hour to use updates. MacBooks have neither wi-fi energy nor NFC, so one wonders how the replace course of could be triggered. Maybe the identical Bluetooth LE beacon characteristic that enables iPhones to be discovered with Discover My even when turned off, may be added to MacBooks and used for this objective?
Nevertheless Apple intends to implement this characteristic, shopping for a Mac with the most recent macOS replace—or at the very least essential last-minute updates—already put in could be a boon for customers.
