Mac is Stuck on Apple Logo or Progress Bar. Try This!

Is your Mac stock on the Apple logo or looping the progress bar screen? There are three things you can try to get mac unstuck and resume the normal start process. This works on any Mac including Macbook and iMac.

The first step is by pressing and holding the power button for 10 seconds to force restart your Mac.

The second option is unplugging all accessories attached to your Mac including external hard drives and printer.

The last step is restarting your Mac in recovery mode. The Apple support page will explain this in more detail depending on the type of Mac you have.

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[RDDall]

Thank you! Unplugging all the hard drives and accessories did the trick!

[kaitlyndoherty]

THANK YOU SO MUCH MY MAC HAS BEEN BROKEN FOR 7 YEARS!! Even Apple said it was done. Last option worked for me!!!

[tommylombardi]

Absolute legend. Was troubleshooting for over an hour, and all I had to do was pull out my hard drive.

[rjeption]

What if Cmd + R doesn’t work and the Apple logo is still stuck?

[orlandow]

Man thank you brother!!!! Mine was sitting for 6 hours and I have class coming up… turns out it was still plugged into the docking station. Once I unplugged it was fine!! Thank you!!

[corknakovastein]

mine gets stuck with a full loading bar and never restarts, I cant seem to get into the recovery mode, also there are no devices attached to it

[tripinoncrochet]

You are a lifesaver thank God your recommendations worked right away ❤👍😊

[FUELTHEFLAMEII]

Thank you so much brother was stuck for an hour or two, all I had to do was remove the charger & mouse!! ❤

[margoduarte-warren]

Thank you so much! I’m waiting on it to do a recovery. This MacBook belonged to my husband and he passed away September 2021.

[edmonddebourbon]

My daughter broke her screen on her Mac Pro 16 $3400 new by the power cord connector was in the hinge so she used our tv for a week then backed up the unit and brought it to Apple they hooked it up to test then gave her a $1, 000 estimate she took it home to find out it no longer powers up she brought it back and said it’s cycling and now needs a logic board also at $2, 000 so how could they have screwed it up with their test jig ?

[ROMANEMPIRE]

I wish I never bought my Mac book pro. Had issues with it while under warranty and nothing was ever found or the help I got was lame. After warranty I needed up having to pay for a repair. And bring it in again for another repair under that service warranty. Now it’s stuck in the loading screen and shutting it off won’t do anything.

[shakaofthezulu]

Wow, as soon as I unplugged accessories the update finished. Thanks!

[maddmaster]

Thank you so much! :) I just held the button for 10 seconds to turn it off...and another 15 seconds until theres a message below the apple logo. It lead to a window where "macintosh hardrive" and "settings"..I nitially pressed settings and worked form there :). Thank you again! :)

[stylishthriftye]

Thank you so much for this quick and to-the-point tutorial. I use my older mac as second monitor and every so often when it does this and I have to reinstall the OS onto an external drive I have velcroed to the back of the Mac. Thanks again!

[bjornwegener]

on MB-air, 11" early 2014: nothing helped. all Cmd+r resets recovery resets etc., even disk repair and install new option from recovery menue all got me stuck on logo-screen. here is what resolved my issue:

boot into safe mode and navigate in finder to /users. Copy your data if you don't have a TM backup that is reliable.

then boot with cmd+r into recovery mode and go to disk utility. Select Macintosh HD (NOT the data partition!) and hit erase. Create the volume with the default AFPS settings.

Then do a new install from the cmd+r menue and wait.... restore your data should it be missing from TM backup or your manual backup

[sliderdriver]

Hi. I'm stuck on the apple logo and the chanel bar screen. It seems to have got to a certain point and won't go any further. (macbook air i5). I'm trying to do an Internet recovery but it ain't happening 💁🏼‍♂️

[LeibstandarteBorisYeltsin]

Second method worked perfectly, thanks!!

[Mr.DWHO]

Thank you. Mac froze during update for an hour and step two worked 😊

[PartnerWithAngela]

First option worked for me too... Thanks 😊

[GuilhermeNunes-rbms]

[SOLVED] My MacBook Pro 2019 with Intel i9 encountered an issue while in Recovery mode, becoming stuck in an infinite loop with the logo. (Running OS Sonoma)

After reading a comment suggesting erasing the main drive in Recovery mode (by holding down Cmd + R after turning on). I erased and, then re-installed the OS, and to my relief, it worked. I realized that it was stuck during the installation process and not actually booting up the OS. Typically, after restarting, it should also take some time... It displays something like "About 25 minutes remaining."

I didn't use the power cable during the installation process, so I'm not sure if that might have caused any issues.

Man, I just bought this laptop this week from someone, and I regretted it almost immediately. Hopefully, I can use it for work for at least a year or more.

Tip: If you can't buy from a store, at least purchase a product that still has a warranty. I learned my lesson.