> macOS can't use Touch ID from a cold boot Isn't that because the Secure Enclave (the only place which contains the Touch ID biometric data) is locked by your

> macOS can't use Touch ID from a cold boot Isn't that because the Secure Enclave (the only place which contains the Touch ID biometric data) is locked by your password? "When a user's password is set up on an Apple Silicon Mac, the password is passed through a one-way hashing algorithm that produces a key used to encrypt the Secure enclave's key."[0] [0] https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2023/04/14/the-security-enclave-demystified.html https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2023/04/14/the-security-encl...