An OS X feature that hides a Recovery HD on Macs to facilitate maintenance, recovery and reinstallation if the OS becomes corrupt. Topic of recovery-mode-ios, data-recovery or file-recovery are unrelated to the recovery category here.
Recovery is an OS X feature that hides a Recovery HD on Macs to facilitate maintenance, recovery and reinstallation if the OS becomes corrupt. This Recovery HD can be booted from by holding ⌘R at boot.
Newer Macs also have the ability to download the Recovery HD image from the internet, internet-recovery, should the Recovery HD not be available.
If your question involves file recovery or data recovery, please use the data-recovery tag.
If your question involves iOS recovery mode, please use the ios-recovery-mode tag.