I had to get rid of Sonoma which was freezing my M1 laptop every time I played a video. This has been a problem for months and Apple hasn't fixed it. So my only option was to revert. Thanks SO much for this! Straightforward, helpful and deeply appreciated.
I don't have any word to express how grateful I am. Brother your video has helped me a lot. I called apple care thrice but every time I was said that ventura cannot be rolled back in my mac. Finally after spending my whole sunday on youtube I came across your video and I read all comments and I got that courage to start this process, and finally at 3:50am I did this successfully. Thank you so much brother. 😇
Amazing! This has been the most helpful way to perform the downgrade the right way, thanks a lot for taking time on having done this video, you don´t know how you saved my next record recording session beginning this weekend and I can only have at its highest Monterey to actually use my FireWire mixer interface. Sir, you saved a record! Thx a lot again! 🥰
I'm happy to know my wife and I are not the only ones. We've been ripping our hair out for the last 6 hours trying to get SPSS to work. Thanks for this wonderful tutorial!
Just dropping a comment to say that I followed the instructions and saved my 2022 M2 MBP. When it updated to Sonoma, it was caught in a login/restart loop. I didn’t have any backup for my data but fortunately I didn’t have a lot yet. Cleared the drive and got Ventura loaded on a 32 GB Sandisk USB. Now we’re back in business!
Likely the most concise video instructions that encompasses the gambit of scenarios. In my case I am downgrading from Sonoma Public Beta back to Ventura. Had I not watched this video matters would have been a lot more complicated as the information provided for my scenario is vital. Thank you! EDIT: I actually used step three where I downgraded from macOS Sonoma Public Beta to Ventura. Matters went smoothly with no issues other than having to authorize permissions again for certain apps. P.S. I did make Time Machine backup on a separate drive for Sonoma Beta just in case something went awry, but didn’t need as all went well with my Ventura Time Machine backups.
Can I please ask if your TM backup (I guess done in Ventura) restored to the Ventura downgraded OS OK? I'm doing the same as you and want it to be as problem free as possible! Intel Quad Core 3.5 - Mid 2015 I think
@@colinmf Yes, the restorative backup was from the last Ventura Time Machine backup prior to upgrading to Sonoma worked faultlessly. Also, while using Sonoma I chose a second hard drive to do a Time Machine backup of just Sonoma as an additional safeguard should matters go awry-before-downgrading back to Ventura.
Thank you so much for detailed and straightforward explanations! I successfully finished to downgrade from Sonoma to Ventura on my M1 air. It literally saved me from headache. Thank you so muchhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe completely unimportant, but you can tell if you are booted from USB Drive or from the recovery mode: When booted from the USB Drive it says ''Install macOS'', when booted from the recovery mode it says ''reinstall macOS''. Small difference, but that's how you can tell.
Thank you my friend you have saved me from a crazy headache. I downloaded pro tools software and it didn't work. After hours of research and customer support they said I had to revert to Ventura. Apple doesn't make it straightforward to revert on Mac Air M2. Great service bud that helped a bunch!!!👍
I can't thank you enough for what you have done to me by providing this video! I followed your instructions step by step and now I am back to Mac OS Ventura and am able to use a very important software without any difficulties again. By the way: the Apple support people told me that it is not possible to downgrade from Sonoma to Ventura again. Thank you again for your great work! 🙏
thanks brother, you comment has encouraged me to initiate the process of downgrading sonoma to ventura. thanks bro. I hope it will work for me as well.
Great video! I used this as guide to downgrade sonoma to ventura. My M1 suddenly drains batt faster after upgrading to sonoma. Now am back to ventura! Thanks a lot!
When I do the downgrade and ventura is installed, and I want to use the time machine back up. Does it only put my files back, or will it put the operating system back aswell?
If your TM backup is on Sonoma then no it won't work. You'll get a message to say you need to install the OS separately before being able to do a full restore from TM. That's why it's important to have a TM backup of the OS that you want to revert to (e.g. Ventura).
I miss the old days when we had more freedom to "downgrade" Macs intuitively and without much effort. Downgrading an M1 from Sonoma to Monterey was a new world and bit scary, but this instructional video was perfect and easy to follow. I had no problems. Bravo, Mr. Macintosh!!!
This is great! Fantastic! One step I missed was - at about 11 minutes in the video - connect to WIFI again before doing the install because although it is installing from the bootable disk, it needs an internet connection to do some of the setup.
my bootable installer isn't showing up as a start up option when i go to recovery mode - only reinstall sonoma, disk utility, safari, and time machine. any tips? I already changed the security settings in recovery mode and restarted again... still no dice
Making disk bootable... Failed to extract AssetData/boot/Firmware/Manifests/InstallerBoot/* from update bundle The bless of the installer disk failed. I keep getting this message. What am I doing wrong?
Again saved, by Mr.M I ran a filemaker server on mac mini m1 2020. After an "apple security upgade" 14.5 the server stoped working. Recovery mode, dint have the option of downgrade, but the ease of making af usb boot disk, is going like a cham. Thanks M for this worderfull aid.
Saudações aqui do Brasil! não tenho palavras para agradecer este vídeo. segui passo a passo e tudo foi perfeito, estava tendo vários problemas com meus discos externos no Sonoma, tive que fazer o Downgrade para poder usar. Muito obrigado novamente.
I am trying to downgrade from Ventura to Monterey on my 2023 Mac mini M2. I followed all the instructions but I'm still getting a error stating "This Version of macOS Cannot Be Installed On This Computer" does this downgrade not work on 2023 Mac mini's?
hi MM, i have a problem with my updating to ventura. I now have no spotlight shortcut, and Siri doesnt work at all. could you point me in the right direction of a fix for this at all? would be great if there is a fix? would a downgrade to the OS before ventura be good? or is there any other fix? thanks very much.
I have a 2019 5k i9 Intel iMac without the T2 security chip. I'm finding it impossible to achieve a downgrade. I've successfully created a bootable USB version of Ventura, but when booting my iMac via holding down the Option key, the bootable USB does not show up. Only the internal SSD is available. I've also attempted the Recovery method, Utilities>Start Up Security. The only thing presented there is adding a password for preventing bootup from external devices. It doesn't offer an option for enabling bootable USB. Thoughts?
I cannot thank enough for this video. Mr. Macintosh I think you have to put this info somewhere else too (or a newer standalone video) because this video contains the only way to downgrade an M processor mac from Sonoma 14.1.1 to Ventura WITHOUT a bootable usb. -- Downgrading was an inevitable end on my part as some of my climate analysis tools were not usable with Sonoma. Out of pure new Mac enthusiasm I upgraded my M2 Mbp to Sonoma on the day of purchase, forgetting the possibilities of compatibility issues with very old software. After waiting almost for a month for solutions from Homebrew, Anaconda, and Macports to appear (while trying every possible way to overcome those issues on my own) I no longer have time to wait as my graduation approaches. Anyways, as mentioned in the video, using Apple Configurator to enable the target Mac's Ventura restore screen here works perfectly. Hope this comment gives courage to people with lost hopes to follow the instructions given in the video. Once again, thanks a billion times Mr. Macintosh, you saved a degree.
Hello! I think you for your very detailed instructions. My question is: Can I downgrade/roll back to Sonoma 14.5 from 14. 6.1 without having to erase my hard drive? Thank you in advance!
really nice video. A quistion, when I press the powerbutton on my Mac mini and hold idt, it dos'nt goes to BOOT INTO MAC OS RECOVERY, is there a nother way to start in that mode?
At the moment where you click "quit install macos" (so that you could erase the hard drive), if you would just click "continue" with the installation, what would be different? Would this also not downgrade the OS to ventura?
New M2 Mini has shipped, probably with Sonoma. I had trouble with a previous unit I sent back. If there are issues again, am I able to install Ventura on a brand new Mac with Sonoma installed? I've read conflicting answers.
Hello, I do not see the video in the description for the Intel Macbooks. Mine is 2018 with Sonoma. Which video has the instructions to get Ventura back?
Please help! I followed this video step by step and when I went to use Time Machine. It went to a login screen and my password won’t work now. I tried going to recovery - terminal and reset password, but it just says you can reset password and if I don’t know password I should deactivate account. Please I need help.
I have a M1-2021 for downgrading. I can’t reinstall Ventura on Macintosh HD in macOSRecovery because it says this Mac needs to be erased before proceeding then it cannot identify any administrator user to erase it. I may not choose Show all devices when I was erasing Macintosh HD for the first time, and now I just can see APPLE SSD in Disk Utility that can’t be erased. Should I jump to the second method by using DFU or do I need to find a way to erase the HDD properly and reinstall Ventura by my bootable USB? Thank you
Hi, on the terminal part, after following pressing y to continue, it shows erasing disk 0%...10%... then in awhile shows "error erasing disk error number (-69888, 0) Could u help me out on this? I've followed the instructions step by step till here.
A question. If I want to run the OS from the external drive, do I just skip erasing my MacBook HD and select the external drive when prompted to select the disk to install macOS?
I am sure I had the beta version of Sonoma. However I had not seen your video and did it another way. I created a bootable usb with Ventura. I erased the drive and reinstalled Ventura. I used migration and loaded files from Time Machine back up. So many problems. Helper application errors with code 36. I have tried everything. Pages will not open or save my page files. I cannot deleted files or programs that will not open. What can I do?
Hey, trying to make disk bootable. However; it gives me this message: Failed to extract AssetData/boot/Firmware/Manifests/InstallerBoot/* from update bundle, The bless of the installer disk failed.. Please advise, thanks.
Hmm, wonder if this is the limit for updates on this old 2014 macbook 13 inch i have here. I mean the mac runs smooth for one task at the time but i always wonder if there is a point in continuing updating it, since there is nothing crucial in most updates. will sonoma really mean anything practical for it? i wonder.. 🤔
You mentioned in the video that the downgrade, but you demonstrate only works if the Sonoma is a beta I have the full version of Sonoma installed and I’m having tremendous issues with it not working correctly with the voiceover screen reader which I must use. I’ve tried everything I can find on the Internet to downgrade and trying from time machine and several other things, and I just cannot make any of them work given that I am totally blind and use voiceover. Will your steps work for a full install of Sonoma? If not can you guide me to someplace where I can figure out how to do this at this point, I’m willing to re-format the whole hard drive, and install Ventura from fresh and then pick and choose files out of my time machine and rebuild my system
Thank You for great video, but i have a problem. After erasing Macintosh HD in recovery mode, there is no more option of Ventura installing - it showing Sonoma again. And also, when I were erasing flash drive for making it boot disk, there was no option for scheme (GUIF map) , only format of a disk(MacOs Journaled) Could it be the problem?
Sir for M chips downgradeing, there is no special settings like for Intel version with T2 chips right, I mean like changing the status of `Secure Boot` and `Allowed Boot Media`,
I can’t get my iMac into recovery mode after I reboot with the usb plugged in. Does the newest version of oclp not support recovery mode on older iMacs?
Hello sir, In the 2nd way do i need macOS ventura installer or i can do directly as you did. Because, i did not recover or have any installer, and it's not happening. Please help.
Hi, Somehow it doesn't work on my computer. (MacBook Pro 2021 14'') At the end of the process it gives the text "Failed to extract AssetData/boot/Firmware/Manifests/InstallerBoot/* from update bundle The bless of the installer disk failed." What could that be? I would be very happy, if you response 🙂 Best wishes
Hi MM thanks for the great video. Quick question if you would no mind. Ia it possible to downgrade a Mac mini 2023 with Apple M2 chip to Big Sur? There is one medical application I need for my staff at work. Older computers could do a drag and drop of PDF files nicely into this software but our new computer cannot. The software company will not fix this problem promptly, if ever, and they blame Apple. I want to downgrade the mini to Big Sur which seems to be the newest macOS that works for this situation. I would like to not have to erase the computer to find out that in the end it is not possible. I have checked the Every Mac web site bout would like to have your expect opinion. Thank you for your help.
What if my Mac M2 Air comes preinstalled out of the box with Sonoma already. I want to downgrade to Monterery is that possible with the tutorial in this video ? (the first method to be exact)
Am I right that the firmware stay on the lets say Sonoma firmware even when you downgrade to Ventura? I had run Sonoma beta and suddenly had terrible data corruptions. I had tried installing Ventura again but didn't work. Now that Sonoma is a full release it works again. Making me believe that the firmware was faulty. Unless I'm wrong that I think the firmware don't get downgraded, only the OS.
Hello @stanchung69 a proper downgrade requires an erase of the disk. Usually when you get that message you are trying to reinstall over the top of your current macOS Version with an older version. If you first backup all your data then erase your disk, the usb installer should precede with Ventura install
@@Mr.Macintosh Thank you, Managed to downgrade after some difficulty. The wifi icon couldn't be found in the top right corner, then after a few tries with an ethernet cable that didn't work, the wifi icon miraculously appeared after sticking in a different ethernet cable. Learnt my lesson. NEVER upgrade the new OS unless I have time to muck around and repair.
Hey when I after I do the --volume step it tells me the follwing: This tool must be run as root. logout Saving session... ...copying shared history... ...saving history...truncating history files... ...completed. Deleting expired sessions...60 completed. [Process completed] What do I do from here?
I have been upgrading my mac mini m1 to sonoma 14.1 and decided to install it clean. I dont use any usb or anything just macos recovery. I go to recovery and it says sonoma, so far so good. I then erased macintosh HD volume and my mac restarted asking me to activate it. Ok i activated my mac and then it shows macos ventura recovery and I just click on install ventura and it did. This is strange because I have upgraded from ventura to sonoma 14 and after that to sonoms 14.1 the day it been released. Did the macos not change recovery after ventura to sonoma because it booted to sonoma recovery when sonoma was installed but after erasing the drive and activation it was on ventura recovery?
I followed your instruction but when I tried to install it after starting again my Macbook Air 2024 M3, it says Ventura not compatible with new M3. What should I do? What OS is compatible for Macbook Air 2024 M3? Anyone with the same case? Sonoma is draining my battery too much :((
I tried to do this. I wanted to take my M2 Mac Studio from Ventura to Monterey. I now have an ORANGE flashing led on the Mac Studio. I guess I gotta go to the Mac Store...
I should clarify could you use a bootable clone rather than a bootable installer. My thinking is if it could be done I could build a master with all my installed applications and could do the downgrade across a few devices that now have Sonoma that has created various issues.
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The most precise, clear, instructions I've seen in my 36 years on this planet.
It's not a downgrade its a upgrade
TRUEE😂😂😂😢😢😢
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is ventura really that better then sonoma 😂
It’s a downgrade…
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I had to get rid of Sonoma which was freezing my M1 laptop every time I played a video. This has been a problem for months and Apple hasn't fixed it. So my only option was to revert. Thanks SO much for this! Straightforward, helpful and deeply appreciated.
I don't have any word to express how grateful I am. Brother your video has helped me a lot. I called apple care thrice but every time I was said that ventura cannot be rolled back in my mac. Finally after spending my whole sunday on youtube I came across your video and I read all comments and I got that courage to start this process, and finally at 3:50am I did this successfully.
Thank you so much brother. 😇
Amazing! This has been the most helpful way to perform the downgrade the right way, thanks a lot for taking time on having done this video, you don´t know how you saved my next record recording session beginning this weekend and I can only have at its highest Monterey to actually use my FireWire mixer interface. Sir, you saved a record! Thx a lot again! 🥰
Man you’re a saviour! Wanted to use SPSS but since it’s not supported yet on Sonoma, had to downgrade to Ventura. This video really helped a lot!!
@siddharthchechani I'm glad to hear it helped you!
I'm happy to know my wife and I are not the only ones. We've been ripping our hair out for the last 6 hours trying to get SPSS to work. Thanks for this wonderful tutorial!
Just dropping a comment to say that I followed the instructions and saved my 2022 M2 MBP. When it updated to Sonoma, it was caught in a login/restart loop. I didn’t have any backup for my data but fortunately I didn’t have a lot yet. Cleared the drive and got Ventura loaded on a 32 GB Sandisk USB. Now we’re back in business!
Mr. Mac out here saving lives! Ty
Likely the most concise video instructions that encompasses the gambit of scenarios. In my case I am downgrading from Sonoma Public Beta back to Ventura. Had I not watched this video matters would have been a lot more complicated as the information provided for my scenario is vital. Thank you! EDIT: I actually used step three where I downgraded from macOS Sonoma Public Beta to Ventura. Matters went smoothly with no issues other than having to authorize permissions again for certain apps. P.S. I did make Time Machine backup on a separate drive for Sonoma Beta just in case something went awry, but didn’t need as all went well with my Ventura Time Machine backups.
Can I please ask if your TM backup (I guess done in Ventura) restored to the Ventura downgraded OS OK? I'm doing the same as you and want it to be as problem free as possible! Intel Quad Core 3.5 - Mid 2015 I think
@@colinmf Yes, the restorative backup was from the last Ventura Time Machine backup prior to upgrading to Sonoma worked faultlessly. Also, while using Sonoma I chose a second hard drive to do a Time Machine backup of just Sonoma as an additional safeguard should matters go awry-before-downgrading back to Ventura.
Thank you so much for detailed and straightforward explanations! I successfully finished to downgrade from Sonoma to Ventura on my M1 air. It literally saved me from headache. Thank you so muchhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe completely unimportant, but you can tell if you are booted from USB Drive or from the recovery mode: When booted from the USB Drive it says ''Install macOS'', when booted from the recovery mode it says ''reinstall macOS''. Small difference, but that's how you can tell.
Thank you my friend you have saved me from a crazy headache. I downloaded pro tools software and it didn't work. After hours of research and customer support they said I had to revert to Ventura. Apple doesn't make it straightforward to revert on Mac Air M2. Great service bud that helped a bunch!!!👍
Glad I could help @sketchart1791 as downgrading is no fun for sure. I'm just glad you got everything fixed up
I can't thank you enough for what you have done to me by providing this video! I followed your instructions step by step and now I am back to Mac OS Ventura and am able to use a very important software without any difficulties again. By the way: the Apple support people told me that it is not possible to downgrade from Sonoma to Ventura again. Thank you again for your great work! 🙏
Glad it helped @janterstiege-literaturzumh9702 👍 Thank you for the wonderful comments 👍
thanks brother, you comment has encouraged me to initiate the process of downgrading sonoma to ventura. thanks bro. I hope it will work for me as well.
Thanks for your comment brother i have successfully downgraded my macOS from sonoma to ventura. Hats of for the creater.
Apple people just want business and don't want to provide service. worst ppl
Great video! I used this as guide to downgrade sonoma to ventura. My M1 suddenly drains batt faster after upgrading to sonoma. Now am back to ventura! Thanks a lot!
hi, can I ask you how is the battery draining of your M1 now? Is it fixed? Thanks.
Same question
Of all the tutorials on RUclips, yours are the best, very well explained. Thank you very much for helping people. Best regards.
Unlike Apples release of Sonoma youve actually made my life better!! Thank you sir
No fancy but non-sense contents at all. All of clear instructions. Super nice job!
When I do the downgrade and ventura is installed, and I want to use the time machine back up. Does it only put my files back, or will it put the operating system back aswell?
My understanding is you can't use time machine on a downgraded OS.
I have the same question. Did you find out?
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If your TM backup is on Sonoma then no it won't work. You'll get a message to say you need to install the OS separately before being able to do a full restore from TM. That's why it's important to have a TM backup of the OS that you want to revert to (e.g. Ventura).
I miss the old days when we had more freedom to "downgrade" Macs intuitively and without much effort. Downgrading an M1 from Sonoma to Monterey was a new world and bit scary, but this instructional video was perfect and easy to follow. I had no problems. Bravo, Mr. Macintosh!!!
This is great! Fantastic! One step I missed was - at about 11 minutes in the video - connect to WIFI again before doing the install because although it is installing from the bootable disk, it needs an internet connection to do some of the setup.
when i restart into the recovery mode i didnt see the ventura installer. It still macOS Sonoma. What might be the problem here..
I have ready found the solution. Thank you boss
@@mmgo0804 whats the solution plz
@@mmgo0804 i have the same problem. How do You fixed that?
How to fix?
Thanks for this video guide, it helped to overcome some important obstacles.
The shared content is highly detailed, and I appreciate it greatly.
Was literally stuck with a $2000 Mac that didn’t work for me, thank you!!!!
best video guide ever, thank you so much. Keep it up please. 😩🙏
my bootable installer isn't showing up as a start up option when i go to recovery mode - only reinstall sonoma, disk utility, safari, and time machine. any tips? I already changed the security settings in recovery mode and restarted again... still no dice
Same bro did you ever find a solution ?
Followed the first way and it worked perfectly! Thank you very much!
Thank you for this straightforward, concise step by step instructions. The video was helpful. Deeply appreciated.
thank you thank you thank you!!!! i appreciate your efforts for this and for helping me personally!
Making disk bootable...
Failed to extract AssetData/boot/Firmware/Manifests/InstallerBoot/* from update bundle
The bless of the installer disk failed.
I keep getting this message. What am I doing wrong?
I get the same, not sure as I have tried numerous times with various installers
This was a life saver in 2024.
Man you are the Mac mini M2 saver! Appreciate that!!!
Fantastic upgrade video! Super concise! Thank you!
Again saved, by Mr.M I ran a filemaker server on mac mini m1 2020. After an "apple security upgade" 14.5 the server stoped working. Recovery mode, dint have the option of downgrade, but the ease of making af usb boot disk, is going like a cham. Thanks M for this worderfull aid.
Saved my life, thanks a lot this was super helpful and easy to follow!
How can I Do this for Intel 2018 Mac mini? I could not find the link in your description.
Saudações aqui do Brasil! não tenho palavras para agradecer este vídeo.
segui passo a passo e tudo foi perfeito, estava tendo vários problemas com meus discos externos no Sonoma, tive que fazer o Downgrade para poder usar. Muito obrigado novamente.
I am trying to downgrade from Ventura to Monterey on my 2023 Mac mini M2. I followed all the instructions but I'm still getting a error stating "This Version of macOS Cannot Be Installed On This Computer" does this downgrade not work on 2023 Mac mini's?
Thank you!! You saved my time!
hi MM, i have a problem with my updating to ventura. I now have no spotlight shortcut, and Siri doesnt work at all. could you point me in the right direction of a fix for this at all? would be great if there is a fix? would a downgrade to the OS before ventura be good? or is there any other fix? thanks very much.
Thank you, now I'm happy with Big Sur
OMG Thank you so much! It worked! Thank you very much. Now I can finally work properly again. You are my hero!
Very well explained! Everything worked! Thank you
Why is this specific for macOS 14 beta only instead of macOS 14 Sonoma for step 3 using recovery os and disk utility to downgrade to macOS Ventura?
Hi! Thanks a lot for all of your advices, it works very well
I have a 2019 5k i9 Intel iMac without the T2 security chip. I'm finding it impossible to achieve a downgrade. I've successfully created a bootable USB version of Ventura, but when booting my iMac via holding down the Option key, the bootable USB does not show up. Only the internal SSD is available. I've also attempted the Recovery method, Utilities>Start Up Security. The only thing presented there is adding a password for preventing bootup from external devices. It doesn't offer an option for enabling bootable USB. Thoughts?
I cannot thank enough for this video. Mr. Macintosh I think you have to put this info somewhere else too (or a newer standalone video) because this video contains the only way to downgrade an M processor mac from Sonoma 14.1.1 to Ventura WITHOUT a bootable usb. -- Downgrading was an inevitable end on my part as some of my climate analysis tools were not usable with Sonoma. Out of pure new Mac enthusiasm I upgraded my M2 Mbp to Sonoma on the day of purchase, forgetting the possibilities of compatibility issues with very old software. After waiting almost for a month for solutions from Homebrew, Anaconda, and Macports to appear (while trying every possible way to overcome those issues on my own) I no longer have time to wait as my graduation approaches.
Anyways, as mentioned in the video, using Apple Configurator to enable the target Mac's Ventura restore screen here works perfectly. Hope this comment gives courage to people with lost hopes to follow the instructions given in the video. Once again, thanks a billion times Mr. Macintosh, you saved a degree.
Hello! I think you for your very detailed instructions. My question is: Can I downgrade/roll back to Sonoma 14.5 from 14. 6.1 without having to erase my hard drive? Thank you in advance!
really nice video. A quistion, when I press the powerbutton on my Mac mini and hold idt, it dos'nt goes to BOOT INTO MAC OS RECOVERY, is there a nother way to start in that mode?
Great video as always..❤❤
At the moment where you click "quit install macos" (so that you could erase the hard drive), if you would just click "continue" with the installation, what would be different? Would this also not downgrade the OS to ventura?
Great and simple video instruction. Awesome! Thanks!!
After downgrading battery draining solved(sonoma to ventura)Many kudos!!!!
Hey can I do this for a M3 MacBook Pro 👀 I wanna roll it back to Ventura
New M2 Mini has shipped, probably with Sonoma. I had trouble with a previous unit I sent back.
If there are issues again, am I able to install Ventura on a brand new Mac with Sonoma installed? I've read conflicting answers.
Hello, I do not see the video in the description for the Intel Macbooks. Mine is 2018 with Sonoma. Which video has the instructions to get Ventura back?
Great video as always!
Please help! I followed this video step by step and when I went to use Time Machine. It went to a login screen and my password won’t work now. I tried going to recovery - terminal and reset password, but it just says you can reset password and if I don’t know password I should deactivate account. Please I need help.
I have a M1-2021 for downgrading. I can’t reinstall Ventura on Macintosh HD in macOSRecovery because it says this Mac needs to be erased before proceeding then it cannot identify any administrator user to erase it. I may not choose Show all devices when I was erasing Macintosh HD for the first time, and now I just can see APPLE SSD in Disk Utility that can’t be erased. Should I jump to the second method by using DFU or do I need to find a way to erase the HDD properly and reinstall Ventura by my bootable USB?
Thank you
Hi, on the terminal part, after following pressing y to continue, it shows erasing disk 0%...10%... then in awhile shows "error erasing disk error number (-69888, 0)
Could u help me out on this? I've followed the instructions step by step till here.
A question. If I want to run the OS from the external drive, do I just skip erasing my MacBook HD and select the external drive when prompted to select the disk to install macOS?
I am sure I had the beta version of Sonoma. However I had not seen your video and did it another way.
I created a bootable usb with Ventura. I erased the drive and reinstalled Ventura. I used migration and loaded files from Time Machine back up.
So many problems. Helper application errors with code 36. I have tried everything. Pages will not open or save my page files. I cannot deleted files or programs that will not open.
What can I do?
Hey, trying to make disk bootable. However; it gives me this message: Failed to extract AssetData/boot/Firmware/Manifests/InstallerBoot/* from update bundle, The bless of the installer disk failed.. Please advise, thanks.
Hmm, wonder if this is the limit for updates on this old 2014 macbook 13 inch i have here. I mean the mac runs smooth for one task at the time but i always wonder if there is a point in continuing updating it, since there is nothing crucial in most updates. will sonoma really mean anything practical for it? i wonder.. 🤔
You mentioned in the video that the downgrade, but you demonstrate only works if the Sonoma is a beta I have the full version of Sonoma installed and I’m having tremendous issues with it not working correctly with the voiceover screen reader which I must use. I’ve tried everything I can find on the Internet to downgrade and trying from time machine and several other things, and I just cannot make any of them work given that I am totally blind and use voiceover. Will your steps work for a full install of Sonoma? If not can you guide me to someplace where I can figure out how to do this at this point, I’m willing to re-format the whole hard drive, and install Ventura from fresh and then pick and choose files out of my time machine and rebuild my system
Thank You for great video, but i have a problem. After erasing Macintosh HD in recovery mode, there is no more option of Ventura installing - it showing Sonoma again. And also, when I were erasing flash drive for making it boot disk, there was no option for scheme (GUIF map) , only format of a disk(MacOs Journaled) Could it be the problem?
Sir for M chips downgradeing, there is no special settings like for Intel version with T2 chips right, I mean like changing the status of `Secure Boot` and `Allowed Boot Media`,
I can’t get my iMac into recovery mode after I reboot with the usb plugged in. Does the newest version of oclp not support recovery mode on older iMacs?
what version of MacOS u suggest to wait for ? usually i upgrade my mac on MacOs 00.3 in this case Wait for Sonoma 17.3
Did you ever come out with an intel video? Or can I do this with my Intel Mac from 2020? Thanks
Following all steps exactly on my MBm2pro and constantly hitting the bless of the installer failed. At wits end trying to get this to work
I am chatting with Apple, and they say since mine comes with Sonoma I can’t go back to Ventura. Which makes no sense cause I’m watching you do it.
Did you get it to work?
thank you. i used the way with the bootable drive and it works
Hello sir,
In the 2nd way do i need macOS ventura installer or i can do directly as you did. Because, i did not recover or have any installer, and it's not happening.
Please help.
Hi, Somehow it doesn't work on my computer. (MacBook Pro 2021 14'') At the end of the process it gives the text "Failed to extract AssetData/boot/Firmware/Manifests/InstallerBoot/* from update bundle The bless of the installer disk failed." What could that be? I would be very happy, if you response 🙂
Best wishes
Im having the same problem
I tried it and it worked now! I took the version 13.6. Try this, maybe you have success...@@DSTUARTification
Thanks for amazing videos
can you tell us pls how to do from MacBook pro 2016 pls ? thanks
Great guide thank you, does this apply to M1 MAX machines too ?
Hey such a useful video! Question, how do i know i have the beta mode?
thaank you so much! i successfully downgraded my macbook air m1 from sonoma which did nothing but to slow down my mac.
Hi MM thanks for the great video. Quick question if you would no mind. Ia it possible to downgrade a Mac mini 2023 with Apple M2 chip to Big Sur? There is one medical application I need for my staff at work. Older computers could do a drag and drop of PDF files nicely into this software but our new computer cannot. The software company will not fix this problem promptly, if ever, and they blame Apple. I want to downgrade the mini to Big Sur which seems to be the newest macOS that works for this situation. I would like to not have to erase the computer to find out that in the end it is not possible. I have checked the Every Mac web site bout would like to have your expect opinion. Thank you for your help.
What if my Mac M2 Air comes preinstalled out of the box with Sonoma already. I want to downgrade to Monterery is that possible with the tutorial in this video ? (the first method to be exact)
Am I right that the firmware stay on the lets say Sonoma firmware even when you downgrade to Ventura? I had run Sonoma beta and suddenly had terrible data corruptions. I had tried installing Ventura again but didn't work. Now that Sonoma is a full release it works again. Making me believe that the firmware was faulty. Unless I'm wrong that I think the firmware don't get downgraded, only the OS.
My m1 Mac Studio say it can’t be downgraded. What should I do? Your help is greatly appreciated
Hello @stanchung69 a proper downgrade requires an erase of the disk. Usually when you get that message you are trying to reinstall over the top of your current macOS Version with an older version. If you first backup all your data then erase your disk, the usb installer should precede with Ventura install
@@Mr.Macintosh Thank you, Managed to downgrade after some difficulty. The wifi icon couldn't be found in the top right corner, then after a few tries with an ethernet cable that didn't work, the wifi icon miraculously appeared after sticking in a different ethernet cable. Learnt my lesson. NEVER upgrade the new OS unless I have time to muck around and repair.
Hey when I after I do the --volume step it tells me the follwing:
This tool must be run as root.
logout
Saving session...
...copying shared history...
...saving history...truncating history files...
...completed.
Deleting expired sessions...60 completed.
[Process completed]
What do I do from here?
Hii can i ask if i downgraded to an older version of mac os, will i still be able to update to the newest version of mac os?
I have been upgrading my mac mini m1 to sonoma 14.1 and decided to install it clean. I dont use any usb or anything just macos recovery. I go to recovery and it says sonoma, so far so good. I then erased macintosh HD volume and my mac restarted asking me to activate it. Ok i activated my mac and then it shows macos ventura recovery and I just click on install ventura and it did. This is strange because I have upgraded from ventura to sonoma 14 and after that to sonoms 14.1 the day it been released. Did the macos not change recovery after ventura to sonoma because it booted to sonoma recovery when sonoma was installed but after erasing the drive and activation it was on ventura recovery?
absolute legend mate
I can't find the link for downgrading to Vantura on older, intel T2 Macs (mine is 2018)
I followed your instruction but when I tried to install it after starting again my Macbook Air 2024 M3, it says Ventura not compatible with new M3. What should I do? What OS is compatible for Macbook Air 2024 M3? Anyone with the same case?
Sonoma is draining my battery too much :((
Hi Mr Macintosh, please, is possible to downgrade from Sonoma to Ventura without formatting and loos data? Thanks
does the install pkg work if I want to upgrade from Catalina. 2019 Mac not m1 or m2
hi, i need to downgrade from sonoma to ventura in my macos late 2011
I tried to do this. I wanted to take my M2 Mac Studio from Ventura to Monterey. I now have an ORANGE flashing led on the Mac Studio. I guess I gotta go to the Mac Store...
This worked thank you so much!!
Can I restore M1 Macbook Air from beta to the official release (include downgrade the firmware) using idevicerestore in Linux and an IPSW file?
could you use a bootable clone of a computer to do this or does it have to be an install and then a restore from a cloned drive?
I should clarify could you use a bootable clone rather than a bootable installer. My thinking is if it could be done I could build a master with all my installed applications and could do the downgrade across a few devices that now have Sonoma that has created various issues.
Just completed my Downgrade step by step! Thank you so !!!
There is only Sonoma when I erase drive
Restart the computer and then you will see ventura
Yeah I was frustrated for a sec
But just restart and don’t click options but install Ventura (which is your usb)
Thank you man 🎉❤ you saved my life
how big of storage do I need my usb drive to be?
enough to save all your storage so if i have 35gb used on my macbook, i'll have to use a usb or hardrive of 50usb to make sure everything was saved