How To Fix and Setup The T7 Samsung SSD App on Apple Silicon Macs

I recently purchased this rugged T7 shield external SSD and went through the installation and after restarting it is not being detected with the Samsung app. The samsung app allows you to password protect and encrypt the SSD, you can potentially skip this step of installing the software if you do not plan to use it.

However if you going to use the app, follow along on how to fix it. With latest MacOS security settings, it no longer allows to third party apps access to the system extension or kernel without explicitly changing the security policy settings.

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Update: Samsung will remove the Portable SSD app from their website and be replaced with the Magician software. -> "As Portable SSD Software has been integrated into Magician Software, Magician Software is the only software available for all Samsung consumer memory products and portable SSD Software will no longer be available for download after April 15th, 2024."

[OneWickedEvo]

Oh my goodness. FINALLY, a video that goes through all the steps. You are a hero. THANK YOU!

[jonability]

Thanks for putting this video together. It's amazing how convoluted Apple makes some things in the name of "simplicity"

[Eric-rfte]

After 3hs of research and giving up, to the point I was trying to format the disk (I couldn't even do that), I found your video. I have a T5, so it works with that as well. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

[ShannonMcGarry-ih]

This video is AWESOME! Thank you so much for creating it. I purchased a T& Samsung SSD because my old Windows Desktop was old and I wanted to save my photos and documents. After purchasing a Mac 2023 Desktop I tried using my T7 Samsung SSD, but it would not open, UGH! I even called Apple, but they could not help me because it wasn't an Apple product. After following your video I can now open the Samsung T7 and access my precious photos and documents. Again thank you so much!

[DmonSlayer]

Just bought the T7 shield as it was on sale during Amazon prime day and this video was exactly what I needed. Thank you very much.

[royklerks]

thx hero, very clear and kept Me from destroying my undestroyable new drive

[kaluimoku]

This worked on one of my macs but not another, to solve the issue on the other one at the beginning of these steps I had to download the installer from samsung's website, and then complete the steps in the video. Thank you!

[HakkMakk]

Apple wants us to hack our macbook just to run a fckn storage software hahaha. Thanks G!

[julianriveracarvajal]

Was about to give up, but did what you suggested and it worked! You da man!

[RealDonfromBroward]

this worked for me; thanks for the instructions. they were easy to follow and i can now access my drive

[georgiatzamourani]

THANK YOU for that video. It is exactly what I was looking for. Very detailed throughout. 🤩

[harut]

Thank you so much for this thorough explanation. That was super helpful!🎉🎉🎉

[sergiobobbera]

Thanks for the workaround Paolo. It seems the same problem is occurring with the new Samsung Magician software!!!

[iannix]

Thanks!! I have a newer mac but the instructions still worked!

[granitesoldier]

This happened to me when I upgraded to monterey. I wasn't so concerned about the password feature, so I found a windows computer that could read the drive, went into settings and disabled the password. Now it works on my mac like a normal hard drive.

[youfancysteph]

Thank you so much. This was very helpful.

[ringo.d]

Very nice, your advice take away my questions in the in the first five seconds of your video! now it works! Thanks a lot!

[rolf]

Thanks for a good video showing all the steps. This was not a walk in a park, . Unfortunally I did not get access to the disk pn my Mac and I wonder if this is because I copied things in to it from an old mac os which apperantly did not have all the "helpful" features of the new system. What is a bit strange is that it did not appear on that mac either, however the drive with all files appeared on my trustworthy Lenevo Thinkpad Win 10 PC.

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Thank you - concise easy to follow video.