Thankyou. That was quite different to previous os versions. Needed two part verification with phone, to turn off Find My and Apple ID, but got there in the end.
Nvm I just needed to re-enter my password. But it was loading in the bottom left so I thought I had to wait. Now it’s loading again, but on logging out at ‘find my’. Hopefully this won’t take as long…
I ended up having to restart my mac, I logged out of my apple ID before the process. So I took that step out. This way it did work for me. Took some patience but that comes with it being an older laptop. For reference I did it on a 2018 macbook pro. Hope this maybe helps someone in the future who has the same struggles
most likely not (unless explicitly specified somewhere) as that would both take longer and introduce excessive wear on SSD’s you can use the multiple overwrite feature in Disk Utility for traditional hard drives, not sure you can even access it for SSD’s however. at least you probably shouldn’t
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Thank you. This was very helpful
Thankyou. That was quite different to previous os versions. Needed two part verification with phone, to turn off Find My and Apple ID, but got there in the end.
it work for My MacBook Air M1 (Sonoma) Thank you from Phillipine
Thanks man this worked!
Great help! What about you have iCloud storage? Can I back up photos and files and recover from there?
Thanks! Great tutorial. Easy and without wather! +1👍🥰
Will this procedure also completely uninstall the Rosetta2?
Does it erase all metadata, and any other data?
its telling me i cant i dont have authrized to reset wtf
Logging out of my Apple ID has been taking 25 minutes now… Is this supposed to take this long?
Nvm I just needed to re-enter my password. But it was loading in the bottom left so I thought I had to wait.
Now it’s loading again, but on logging out at ‘find my’. Hopefully this won’t take as long…
I ended up having to restart my mac, I logged out of my apple ID before the process. So I took that step out. This way it did work for me. Took some patience but that comes with it being an older laptop.
For reference I did it on a 2018 macbook pro.
Hope this maybe helps someone in the future who has the same struggles
Doesn't work. It says "Erase assistant is not available on this Mac"
Do you have macOS Sonoma?
I get a message erase assistant is not supported on this Mac. I have a M1 2020 MacBook Pro anyone else had the same problem?
Yes I do to and 3 others in the comments but this channel refuses to fucking answer anyone
Does it apply several layers on the drive to make your data hard to recover?
most likely not (unless explicitly specified somewhere) as that would both take longer and introduce excessive wear on SSD’s
you can use the multiple overwrite feature in Disk Utility for traditional hard drives, not sure you can even access it for SSD’s however. at least you probably shouldn’t
@@efraimkent Yeah I know disk utility has that, I was wondering if it was doing it automatically for safety. Why is it bad to do it on SSD?
It's not necessary for modern SSDs, data deleted is just gone.