How to erase and reset your Mac to factory settings | Apple Support

[@Grounderz7]

Is this method better than a complete reformatting?

[@darylzero3139]

How secure is this? If selling the mac can someone recover the data?

[@StarlettaRainey]

Why's there no Erase all Content thingy? Useless for me.

[@Shibnibby]

Same. Mine also says system preferences not settings. When i press general, this isnt what comes up

[@DavitTheCore]

AHEM, *what about Command+R?*

[@iiam_sh4neyy]

Command+R doesn't sign out of Apple Services, so using that feature isn't acceptable because using macOS Recovery will still show the Mac's location in Find My, to the previous user.

[@suzannewhittaker2280]

Does not work at all. I have Monterey and when I go into the second system preferences there is no erase option. Useless

[@JeffreyAult]

same

[@archiemcguinness4261]

Does anyone know the fix if we can’t see thus

[@BolidexD]

I forget my login password What to do

[@random-macos-user]

I always LOVE to watch these videos, they are really good! 👍

[@jimmy-d4p]

will this get rid of any viruses or malware ?

[@hermighty.]

if i dont sign in how to reformat?

[@saiyanav]

How to fix the "Error while preparing to erase. try again later" error?

[@pratikrane149]

Than you! It worked seamlessly with sequoia.

[@shamkhan2640]

In Disk utility, i canot see SSD internal only OS X Base system is visible, I have tried through terminal using diskutil list but still SSD doesn't appear. Please help me. i m using MacBook (Retina, 12 inch, 2017)

[@shawnbrase]

Mine does not look like that. Wanna go to the top left and hit the Apple icon it’s a system preferences and then when I go into general, it doesn’t look like what it looks like for you and it doesn’t have the option for transfer or reset…

[@arvismilosevics2312]

What to do if a message ''Erase Assistant is not supported on this Mac''?

[@donotenter2601]

My Mac says Assistant is not available.

[@sstqr_]

For some reason when i erased it it asked me for the apple id password or phone number.. as this is my dad’s mac i dont know his apple id password. what do i do?? Also.. what will happen if i put in his phone number? Will it ask me for a code from his phone?

[@Zavier-s1k]

Yes it does it’s soo good ty

[@ddsn-dailydrivenbyshairbaz4809]

I tried once and padlock came on
Then what to do?

[@aimitt]

Help apple my laptop is stuck I turned it off and on after I literally did you’re latest update it’s not showing any apps after I put passwords on it

[@chrisdvorak5917]

Why does the music on this go so hard?

[@SkGandJ]

I dont have erase all adata option😢

[@suzannewhittaker2280]

Either do I

[@mrhawkeye293]

This worked. Thank you. Now im going to return it. My phone does everything this does faster and easier imo.

[@indiaalmighty]

this does not work

[@idkwhoamx]

thanks

[@polskilis3308]

I like these videos they're informative 👍

[@Rpez]

Worked for me.

[@pradeepbiswas7966]

while going through the process the macbook has gone into sleep permanemtly, not turning on /
?

[@hanshuber5659]

what happens, if you have multiple users with different Apple-IDs on the MAC? Can one user reset the entire MAC, including all user accounts?

[@xiaokanfengyun-xn]

Same question.

[@UnwieldilyElephant]

@@xiaokanfengyun-xn Yes, and admin account can erase the entire Mac, including other user accounts.

[@edgaravilacanete]

Thank you

[@Grade_XYZ]

Thanks for sharing

[@northcarolinaphotography]

Nice work apple

[@benoxford1482]

Doesn't work

[@rebeccarobles7532]

You might need Ventura

[@jesset061084]

I can’t do anything to get to erase anything I do what it tells me and can’t find anything

[@KyleJHB]

I wish Apple Silicon had the old Intel ability to restore from online. Could completely format the hard drive and re-install the latest MacOS directly from Apple as a fresh install. Now you are forced to create a bootable USB drive to do this.

[@SenushaKevintha-bk3ww]

Good luck 👍

[@milkshakellie]

Thanks for making this video that doesn't work so i have to go to other videos just to sell your terrible product and get a windows computer instead

[@Icer23]

I Love Apple

[@JaydenStephens-fy1xs]

Thanks Apple can you reply to this comment

[@tommccarty1883]

Total waste of time. 2017 iMac.. not available

[@Simon-xu4yr]

This video is garbage for Monterey

[@DannyMexen9]

Thanks. I want to sell my M1 MBA.

[@joytotheworld460]

These guides are so soulless and impersonable. What happened to the informative guided tours we used to get with new releases of Os X Apple?

[@hexagonal69]

I mean, it’s a corporate standard. The videos are supposed to be professional, informative and concise. If you want personal support, call Apple.

[@toshi_btc]

After activation I had to reinstall the mac os for some reason ...3 hours of waiting time. insane