

In addition to all of this, your internal drive is also soldered to the main logic board, and is probably fried as well.Ī successful recovery would require the following, which would be basically impossible: If the T2 Security Chip is fried, that makes the required keys it holds inaccessible, rendering your data forever inaccessible. Unfortunately, if the main logic board is fried, the T2 Security Chip is already soldered to that board, and is most likely fried as well.

The T2 chip stores several important keys that are required to unlock your data. It also ensures that if you choose to erase your Mac, an attacker can't recover the data afterwards. This encryption ensures that if an attacker or thief were to circumvent the protections provided by your Mac, the data inside would be rendered inaccessible. Your Mac contains the Apple T2 Security Chip, which provides hardware encryption for all of your data. Unfortunately, in your situation, data recovery is 99% impossible. NYC shop does lots of board level repairs: There are but a few shops doing board level repairs. This requires a functioning Logic board-T2 security chip the Logic Board must be repaired at the board level in order to allow the T2 security chip to communicate with the SSD in an effort to decrypt the data on the SSDĪpple does not do board repairs. Since 2018+ MBP with a T2 chip not likely to have the data recovered since it must be able to use the DFU restore mode where Apple or a AASP must use a special service utility to read the data from the SSD. The post by BobTheFisherman above is on point:Ĭomputers with a T2 chip-including your 2019 16" MBP If you don’t own one or never owned one, no point wasting your time on my thread My discussion post is *only* for folks who have had this issue with a MacBook Pro 16” logic board. “ This is now inconsistent with what you are tell me so I am the one who is missing the point. Your earlier answer said “I guess it may be possible if you were in a lab and had the tools to access a soldered drive and it was not the drive that was fried.
