How to Boot your M1 Mac to macOS Recovery Mode to erase and reinstall macOS Big Sur!

If you are having problems with your Apple Silicon Mac, your first line of defense on Apple Silicon Macs should be macOS Recovery. But if for some reason you are having problems with that you can boot your Apple Silicon Mac with a Big Sur USB installer drive. I wrote an article covering all the changes to macOS Recovery here.
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Order of that you should follow for reinstalling macOS on Apple Silicon.
1. macOS Recovery
2. System Recovery - (Will boot automatically if macOS Recovery is unavailable)
3. macOS Big Sur USB Installer Drive - (External boot for macOS Installers is enabled by default on Apple Silicon)
4. Apple Configurator 2 REVIVE option - This option will reinstall macOS Recovery (retains user data on the SSD hard drive)
5. Apple Configurator 2 RESTORE option - This option will Reinstall macOS Recovery, ERASE your SSD hard drive and reinstall macOS
Apple has just posted a new articles on macOS recovery, booting to DFU mode and how to restore macOS Firmware.
This video is is for the following Apple Silicon Macs
Apple Silicon M1 Mac Mini
Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Air
Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Pro 13"
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[@Mr.Macintosh]

Recovery mode has changed on Apple Silicon Mac! I it's not Command R anymore, Apple has made the process really easy now. All of those commands are gone. Let me know if you have any questions!

[@zekethep1umber]

Wow I was looking everywhere on the net on how to do this. But yours works!

[@noneya135]

Thank you for the help and the straight forward video.

[@Mr.Macintosh]

You bet None Ya, Thanks!

[@Ben216k]

Now I want that as my Open Core boot picker to look like that. That looks pretty good, and I want to be able to use it on my 2012 MacBook Pro.

[@datascience_azamat]

I was setting up my Macbook Air m1 at user creation part it stopped and I created 4 users without knowing. After restart I can`t access any of those. I followed these steps and reinstalled Big sure but still I see these users and can`t access my Mac

[@faisalaljaber4015]

thanks for your vid .. I have faced one problem that after the booting when create a computer account it shows computer account creation failed and .. It won't accept my new password that I have created it..

[@RetiredByDividend]

After I erased the disk, and continue reinstall Big Sur, I got this error: "No users available for authorization". Do you know how to fix it? Thanks.

[@Mr.Macintosh]

Brian, this means that you were using an earlier version of macOS Big Sur Beta. This was a problem in beta but was resolved in version 11.0.1.

[@jacky_west]

I bought mine 2 days ago. Yesterday it made an update (i don’t know what version it updated) but still i got that error

[@gilsonmelo9494]

How to boot in safe mode with a M1 Mac?

[@Mr.Macintosh]

Gilson, it should be the same as intel! But I’ve not tied it yet. I’ll get back to you

[@gilsonmelo9494]

@@Mr.Macintosh I tried keeping shift pressed and it didn’t work. I found an article from Apple that you need to keep power button pressed during the startup and after you get to the control option you need to press shift but that didn’t work either. Hope you find how to boot a M1 Mac with safe boot. Still looking for it. Thx.

[@Tech-geeky]

Yikes... So all though commands bootup options are history... Just great.. I suppose that makes it easier

[@ramzisumahah9390]

Thanks MAAAAAAAAAN

[@mylovelypuy1489]

can u help me because i did everything and still

[@mylovelypuy1489]

An error occurred while reading device owners. Ensure that some user is allowed to administer this computer. thats what it says

[@mylovelypuy1489]

pls help me i have an exam next week

[@jacky_west]

Me too.

[@SergeyGurianov]

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