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APFS is the native file system for which operating system?

Android

Windows

Linux

macOS

APFS stands for Apple File System. It is the native file system used by macOS on modern Macs. A native file system is the one the operating system is designed to manage by default for storing and organizing files on its drives. APFS was created to replace the older HFS+ on solid-state storage and to support features like strong encryption, space sharing, snapshots, and fast directory sizing. Other operating systems have their own default file systems (Windows uses NTFS, Linux commonly uses ext4), and while they can access APFS with special software, it isn’t native to them.