No password needed · 2 minutes
The four things a website cannot see on its own
Activation Lock, device management, battery wear and drive health decide whether a used Mac is worth buying — and none of them are visible to a web page. One read-only command reads all of them. It installs nothing, changes nothing, and never asks for a password.
Step one
Copy this command
That code is generated fresh for this inspection. Output carrying a different code is rejected, so a result captured earlier — or on a healthier Mac — cannot be passed off as this one's.
Step two
Run it on the seller's Mac
- Press ⌘ Space, type terminal, press Return.
- Press ⌘ V to paste the command, then Return to run it.
- It prints one line: Copied. The result is already on the clipboard — there is nothing to select.
It only reads. If anything asks for a password, you have pasted the wrong thing — close Terminal and start again.
Step three
Bring the result back
Or just press ⌘ V anywhere on this page. Nothing is uploaded — the text is read here, in this browser.
Worth buying alongside it
The bits and pieces most second-hand Macs turn up without
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