


Save it somewhere safe, and only then click on your chosen button in the panic log window. If your Mac restarts spontaneously in this way, look out for that panic log, and before agreeing to send it to Apple (or not), select its contents, copy and paste them into a text document, using TextEdit if necessary. It’s really easy to agree to that without saving the panic log, and remaining none the wiser as to what happened or why. These days, it’s like a guilty secret: your Mac restarts for no apparent reason, then a minute or so after it’s back up and running you’re invited to send some technical information to Apple.

There was a time when macOS drew attention to a kernel panic, with a distinctive multi-lingual explanation shortly before the Mac restarted.
