Hey Faraz, this helped me BIG TIME. Also needed Mojave for an older audio interface and I couldn't have done it without the vid. Subscribing and wishing you all the best!
@@ExcelExciting same here and ended up buying a cheap refurbished Macbook Air but even that had too new version of Mac OS X installed to work with my hardware! So using your video to downgrade to Mojave or High Sierra! Apple needs to quit pushing their new OS that break hardware!
Thank you, Thank you Faraz, I had updated to Monterey and come to know that many music programs for recording with protools were still not compatible with the new version of Mac. What a big help with your video.
thanks for sharing your feedback.. your comment would be helpful for other audiences who are watching this video. May I know which apps were you facing issue ?
This happened to me with ableton! I’m actually at the apple store right now because I am getting an error at the internet recovery stage :( I’m so close and have done everything according the video but they can’t figure it out!
@@justindouville5448 I’m also trying to downgrade from bigsur back to high sierra or Mojave because of ableton. I’m still running 9 so I have to go pre Catalina, but I’m sort of afraid to try thud since I’ve never done it before
Thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial! I had to downgrade to an older version of Mac OS X to use hardware synthesizers that do not work with later versions of the Mac OS X. I did have to create a bootable disk like you mentioned but the App Store download gave me issues download software so I used manual download site from Apple Support.
Hey, so I was stuck in the same boat that the erase button wouldn’t work… i would click the erase button and nothing would happen. Follow everything he says on the video up until the erase part (if the erase part doesn’t work for you obviously).. I shut the MacBook down.. then powered it on.. press Command and R until it boots you to “Monterey Recovery”. Once in “Monterey Recovery” it’ll look similar to those erase instructions (recovery mode Faraz is showing) except you won’t be able to “show all devices”. Erase your internal disk.. give it a name and choose APFS and erase. It should work… once you’re done erasing exit this recovery mode. Turn off your Mac. Turn it back on and continue with Fazal’s instructions… (right when he said turn it on and hold the option key) … obviously there won’t be nothing to erase since you just did it in Monterey recovery. Continue with installing the MacOS you want. Hope this helps. Sorry if it’s extra wordy…and sorry if it doesn’t work for you like it worked for me. Good luck!
In case it helps anyone, while downgrading from Monterey to Catalina, I kept getting an error in my terminal when trying to erase / make my USB a bootable. I followed some advice online and formatted it instead as ExFAT instead of MacOS Extended and it worked! Something to consider trying in case you're running into the same issue.
Thank you! I downgraded to High Sierra to use my 2011 27" iMac as a display for my Mac Studio. High Sierra or earlier was a requirement. The process saved me $1500 on a new display. Many thanks for your step-by-step video.
Faraz, you are my saviour! Thank you so much for this superbly clear and concise tutorial. I recently updated the OS on my 2015 MacBook Pro to Monterey but realized that Traktor pro 2 is not compatible with it so I had to downgrade to Mojave. This video has saved me a lot of trouble and I am truly grateful. Liked and subscribed!
Thanks Faraz, It worked! People, Make sure your USB drive or hard disk is directly connect to your system. HUB won't take it. I went back to Mojave becasue I'm a music producer and none of my softwares worked. Thank you :)
Great video...we upgraded one Mac 2 days ago...from High Seirra..to Catalina...and then straight to Montarey... Had many issues... particularly with Logic pro plugins like waves . ...final cut 3rd party apps ..plus system was slower due to this being a 27 inch later 2015 5k retina model..... Phewww.... tomorrow...we will downgrade back to High Seirra...and use your method...as well as restore from the Back up we first made before upgrading from High Sierra to Catalina....
Man congratulations for the video. You saved my life with that tutorial. I was trying to do a fresh installation in my iMac late 2011. I made a mess and lost everything in the disk. I downloaded high sierra and installed with your tutorial. Congratulations again buddy!!! I have just subscribed to your channel to show some gratitude!!!!
You save my life. I upgraded to Ventura from Mojave because of the incompatibility with adobe. But after that my macpro 2019 was unbearably slow. Following the tutorial, I had one error that said my laptop security setting doesn't allow to use an external startup disk, just follow the instruction to change the setting and problem solved. Thanks a lot!!!
Thank you for this VERY helpful video! My 2018 MacBook Pro running Mojave died and I bought a used one to replace it. It had Monterey loaded on it and the Time Machine restore wouldn't work with that OS on it. I didn't figure that out completely for a long time. So I realized I needed to load Mojave on the new used computer and I followed your fine instructions. After that, I restored (Command R) (NOT transfer data but restored) from my Time Machine backup. This last step is not in this video (in case you have a similar problem). 🙂
My Touch Bar stopped working when I updated to Monterey. Apple store wanted to charge me $596 to fix a “hardware issue” when clearly it was software related. Glad I took the time to learn how to do this!
Thank you Farez, your instructions were perfect. I had numerous issues with Monterey and Logic Pro. Now everything is running well again with Big Sur 👍👍
Hi Ross, was the playhead missing out n Logic Pro? I went from High Sierra to Catalina on my iMac in 2020 and lost the playhead on Logic. I was thinking of going back to High Sierra but if Big Sur works that maybe an option too. I update my MacBook Pro initially to Catalina and that worked fine with Logic Pro so that was the reason I decided to upgrade my desktop lol. Not used the desktop since
@@ExcelExciting this is actually some plug-ins i use to record songs and demos in ableton live such as addictive drums, bias amp etc. lots of them just crush over and over again. same thing in logic x pro, that’s why i prefer older version :) i also had some troubles with crossover, wine (oh man, i can’t live a life without it!) and topazlabs gigapixel to edit photos in high resolution. everything was just crushing every time as i mentioned before. now i’m the happiest person alive. thanks a lot again!!
Oh my goodness, I’ve been trying for weeks to get mine to downgrade to Big Sur! Reading different articles and nothing seemed to work except for this video. Thank you very much and it was such an easy process!! 😊🙏🏽
Excellent video, made my life so much easier than reading a million forums. I downgraded because an audio program I purchased in the past wasn't working on Monterrey.
I got a message that says this copy of “install macOS” application is too old to be opened on this version of macOS. Would you happen to know what i should do from there?
Hey man, unsure why this is happening to me but when I try to create a bootable drive - terminal tells me "MYUSB is not a valid volume mount point." I also erased the drive thru disk utility and saved it as a "Mac OS extended (journaled)" . Any other ideas to get the thrumbdrive to work?
Thank you so much Faraz! I feel like a computer scientist 😂 I was able to successfully downgrade from macOS Monterey to Big Sur! and keep my data! yeeee! now I just gotta figure out how to get my old IMovie and Microsoft Office files back cause they're still incompatible 😭
Thank Faraz! Had a Mac mini Logic board replaced and they sent it back with Monterey installed but we use Mojave on all computers in our studio setup This is exactly the video I needed for the downgrade!
Thank you Faraz, wish I found you earlier. I had corrupted my system by making a bad downgrade previously. It was acting up and now I have to redo this step. Gotten a lot of unnecessary education about T2 chip and missing admin privileges! The main reason for the downgrade are software not working or performing properly on the 64bit architecture of Monterey. Too many bugs
Hmmm… in Terminal, erasing disk 100%, copying to disk 100% but then states… ‘IA app name cookie write failed… The copy of the installer app failed’. Any ideas anyone as I’ve been going around and around for sometime trying to sort this. I’m trying to downgrade from Big Sur to Mojave so the software I have from previous Mac will work etc.
Thank you for this tutorial. I am going to downgrade to Mojave as well, because Monterey turned out to be a complete and utter nightmare for my late 2015 iMac. Gigantic memory leaks all the time, unable to work on the machine as it kept freezing (despite 32 GB of RAM). In all of the years using iMacs, I have never seen a worse OS than MOnterey. WTF were they thinking when they put this garbage out?
How can I upgrade when my iMac doesn’t work anymore Since upgrading I can’t even use chrome Safari doesn’t show up I have no way to use my computer or work ….
What I can recommend you here is, make a bootable USB drive as showed in the video, I know you cannot do it with you system, you need another mac to get this done... Once you are done make sure to backup you important data & then boot you system using this USB hope this work fine with no issues..
hey how's it going? :) ty for the vid! ...I was trying to install a driver of a perfectly working sound card that I have on my Big Sur, but it's not letting me ...do you know maybe how to make it work?
Faraz I have a 2019 Mac Pro and I was wondering if I upgrade the boot drive to Monterey (or other newer MacOS) will it always let you downgrade? I have heard that once the firmware is upgraded to a certain point you may not be able to downgrade. Do you know if this is true? Thanks, great video !
Hey, so I was stuck in the same boat that the erase button wouldn’t work… Follow everything he says on the video up until the erase part (if the erase part doesn’t work for you obviously).. I shut the MacBook down.. then powered it on.. press Command and R until it boots you to “Monterey Recovery”. Once in “Monterey Recovery” it’ll look similar to those erase instructions (recovery mode Faraz is showing) except you won’t be able to “show all devices”. Erase your internal disk.. give it a name and choose APFS and erase. It should work… once you’re done erasing exit this recovery mode. Turn off your Mac. Turn it back on and continue with Fazal’s instructions… (right when he said turn it on and hold the option key) … obviously there won’t be nothing to erase since you just did it in Monterey recovery. Continue with installing the MacOS you want. Hope this helps. Sorry if it’s extra wordy…and sorry if it doesn’t work for you like it worked for me. Good luck!
been looking for a comment like this. So my Pro 2016 has a fan issue, but apparently when I formatted it, it went back to Mojave and the fan noise disappeared and battery health was excellent. I then stupidly upgraded it to Monterey, and the constant fan noise came back. but I think I am going to downgrade again to the OS the laptop came with. Do you know why it behaves like this though????
Thank you so much! Everything went smoothly, however when I try to restore my files with Time Machine, it doesn't show my latest back up. Could you please help? My files are definitely backed up into an external hard drive. Is it possibly because the backup was done in Ventura, therefore cannot restore in Mojave?
Hi, Faraz! I need your help please. I need to contact you. I followed every step of your tutorial. Got it to Catalina from Monterey, but I can't transfer my files using Time Machine. I really need my files and I'm stressed out that I can't transfer it. Please reply!
Hi... The instructions are great. However I hit the wall. I cannot erase my internal Apple HDD on iMac, I pressed the erase button but didn't bring me anywhere. Any suggestions please?
Hey, so I was stuck in the same boat that the erase button wouldn’t work… Follow everything he says on the video up until the erase part (if the erase part doesn’t work for you obviously).. I shut the MacBook down.. then powered it on.. press Command and R until it boots you to “Monterey Recovery”. Once in “Monterey Recovery” it’ll look similar to those erase instructions (recovery mode Faraz is showing) except you won’t be able to “show all devices”. Erase your internal disk.. give it a name and choose APFS and erase. It should work… once you’re done erasing exit this recovery mode. Turn off your Mac. Turn it back on and continue with Fazal’s instructions… (right when he said turn it on and hold the option key) … obviously there won’t be nothing to erase since you just did it in Monterey recovery. Continue with installing the MacOS you want. Hope this helps. Sorry if it’s extra wordy…and sorry if it doesn’t work for you like it worked for me. Good luck!
life saver huge thanks wanted to downgrade back to big sur and get my sound back on my macbook pro hated using blue tooth all the time with monterey which messed up my audio but everything now back to normal
You can do that but you need make partition on your drive, as you cannot overwrite in the same drive. Formatting was do the clean installation on your system..
Hey, so I was stuck in the same boat that the erase button wouldn’t work… Follow everything he says on the video up until the erase part (if the erase part doesn’t work for you obviously).. I shut the MacBook down.. then powered it on.. press Command and R until it boots you to “Monterey Recovery”. Once in “Monterey Recovery” it’ll look similar to those erase instructions (recovery mode Faraz is showing) except you won’t be able to “show all devices”. Erase your internal disk.. give it a name and choose APFS and erase. It should work… once you’re done erasing exit this recovery mode. Turn off your Mac. Turn it back on and continue with Fazal’s instructions… (right when he said turn it on and hold the option key) … obviously there won’t be nothing to erase since you just did it in Monterey recovery. Continue with installing the MacOS you want. Hope this helps. Sorry if it’s extra wordy…and sorry if it doesn’t work for you like it worked for me. Good luck!
I'm trying to downgrade from Catalina to High Sierra. After turning on the computer (6:00min) by holding the "option"key I get a black screen, so my key doesn't work as startup. I've to Cmd +R keys but I get into the MacOS Recovery utility window with Catalina back again as option to reInstall. Is there is another way to access the High Sierra external drive installer/ volume without the option key as startup?. I appreciate your response. thanks!
Thank you so much for this video! I had to downgrade Mac to older version to use the software with some hardware that will not run on newer Mac OS versions.
the only problem i was facing while downgrading is that when i was trying to download the os from app store it was saying that my system is up to date, as i was running monterey..then i came across the solution is that i need to open my mac in safe mode to download the os and it worked for me, rest is asshown in this video thank you so much....guys dont upgrade...its a trap
thanks for helpful video. i use mac for making music and most of my important plug ins are 32 bit because macOS Monterey works in 64 bit only i have to downgrade my Imac 2020 i9 to mojave but unfortunately i cant finde the mojave installer. is there any possibelity to upload your installer on some sharing website? or do you know where i can download Mojave? thanks al lot.
Hi Faraz thank you for doing up this video! trying my luck to reach you to check on what is "The default interactive shell is now zsh."? This was shown in my Terminal.
Great Tutorial Faraz, worked well! You are very clear with all the steps, really appriciate that! I downgraded to Catalina because of older (otherwise incompatible) software and that I like Catalina's interface and speed.
thank you dearly for this video! it helped me a ton! monterey gave me so many issues on my imac. it became super slow and all my graphic software were not supported. a real pain that new ios. happy to be back on mojave! cheers
Hi Faraz, after downgrade system being install, what about the Apps we previously install in the system, it will still there, or we have to reinstall 1 by 1?
Hey, so I was stuck in the same boat that the erase button wouldn’t work… Follow everything he says on the video up until the erase part (if the erase part doesn’t work for you obviously).. I shut the MacBook down.. then powered it on.. press Command and R until it boots you to “Monterey Recovery”. Once in “Monterey Recovery” it’ll look similar to those erase instructions (recovery mode Faraz is showing) except you won’t be able to “show all devices”. Erase your internal disk.. give it a name and choose APFS and erase. It should work… once you’re done erasing exit this recovery mode. Turn off your Mac. Turn it back on and continue with Fazal’s instructions… (right when he said turn it on and hold the option key) … obviously there won’t be nothing to erase since you just did it in Monterey recovery. Continue with installing the MacOS you want. Hope this helps. Sorry if it’s extra wordy…and sorry if it doesn’t work for you like it worked for me. Good luck!
Thanks so much Faraz! I had a question, after I went through ‘Install macOS’ part, it went back to the same window after it showed the loading bar. Now it shows options Install OS, Disk Utility, etc. but it doesn’t go anywhere further than that. It doesn’t let me click anything either. Has that happened to you mac too?
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Hey Faraz, this helped me BIG TIME. Also needed Mojave for an older audio interface and I couldn't have done it without the vid. Subscribing and wishing you all the best!
I am so glad that this video was helpful for you 👍🏻
@@ExcelExciting same here and ended up buying a cheap refurbished Macbook Air but even that had too new version of Mac OS X installed to work with my hardware! So using your video to downgrade to Mojave or High Sierra! Apple needs to quit pushing their new OS that break hardware!
Thank you, Thank you Faraz, I had updated to Monterey and come to know that many music programs for recording with protools were still not compatible with the new version of Mac. What a big help with your video.
thanks for sharing your feedback.. your comment would be helpful for other audiences who are watching this video. May I know which apps were you facing issue ?
This happened to me with ableton! I’m actually at the apple store right now because I am getting an error at the internet recovery stage :( I’m so close and have done everything according the video but they can’t figure it out!
@@justindouville5448 I’m also trying to downgrade from bigsur back to high sierra or Mojave because of ableton. I’m still running 9 so I have to go pre Catalina, but I’m sort of afraid to try thud since I’ve never done it before
me too! Universal Audio is pretty lazy when it comes to compatibility...
Thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial! I had to downgrade to an older version of Mac OS X to use hardware synthesizers that do not work with later versions of the Mac OS X. I did have to create a bootable disk like you mentioned but the App Store download gave me issues download software so I used manual download site from Apple Support.
Hey, so I was stuck in the same boat that the erase button wouldn’t work… i would click the erase button and nothing would happen. Follow everything he says on the video up until the erase part (if the erase part doesn’t work for you obviously).. I shut the MacBook down.. then powered it on.. press Command and R until it boots you to “Monterey Recovery”. Once in “Monterey Recovery” it’ll look similar to those erase instructions (recovery mode Faraz is showing) except you won’t be able to “show all devices”. Erase your internal disk.. give it a name and choose APFS and erase. It should work… once you’re done erasing exit this recovery mode. Turn off your Mac. Turn it back on and continue with Fazal’s instructions… (right when he said turn it on and hold the option key) … obviously there won’t be nothing to erase since you just did it in Monterey recovery. Continue with installing the MacOS you want. Hope this helps. Sorry if it’s extra wordy…and sorry if it doesn’t work for you like it worked for me. Good luck!
Thank you so much for your comment! I was panicking and came across your advice, totally life saving!
Thank you so much! May God bless you 🙏
I follow your instructions also but ther is no APFS format
Can i choose another format like mac os extended (journaled)
This comment is Legend
In case it helps anyone, while downgrading from Monterey to Catalina, I kept getting an error in my terminal when trying to erase / make my USB a bootable. I followed some advice online and formatted it instead as ExFAT instead of MacOS Extended and it worked! Something to consider trying in case you're running into the same issue.
Thank you! I downgraded to High Sierra to use my 2011 27" iMac as a display for my Mac Studio. High Sierra or earlier was a requirement. The process saved me $1500 on a new display. Many thanks for your step-by-step video.
Faraz, you are my saviour! Thank you so much for this superbly clear and concise tutorial. I recently updated the OS on my 2015 MacBook Pro to Monterey but realized that Traktor pro 2 is not compatible with it so I had to downgrade to Mojave. This video has saved me a lot of trouble and I am truly grateful. Liked and subscribed!
Thanks Faraz, It worked! People, Make sure your USB drive or hard disk is directly connect to your system. HUB won't take it. I went back to Mojave becasue I'm a music producer and none of my softwares worked. Thank you :)
Thank you for your feedback..I always used USB never experienced such an issue.. your feedback is valuable & I will take note of it
Faraz, your video helped me out! after seen a lot of others is your video the most understandable, even for a non-programmer like me!😅
You are welcome!
Great video...we upgraded one Mac 2 days ago...from High Seirra..to Catalina...and then straight to Montarey... Had many issues... particularly with Logic pro plugins like waves . ...final cut 3rd party apps ..plus system was slower due to this being a 27 inch later 2015 5k retina model..... Phewww.... tomorrow...we will downgrade back to High Seirra...and use your method...as well as restore from the Back up we first made before upgrading from High Sierra to Catalina....
Awesome, thanks for sharing your feedback.. your comment would be helpful for other audiences who are watching this video.
Did you have to reinstall your wave plugins?
Man congratulations for the video. You saved my life with that tutorial. I was trying to do a fresh installation in my iMac late 2011. I made a mess and lost everything in the disk. I downloaded high sierra and installed with your tutorial. Congratulations again buddy!!!
I have just subscribed to your channel to show some gratitude!!!!
you
You save my life. I upgraded to Ventura from Mojave because of the incompatibility with adobe. But after that my macpro 2019 was unbearably slow. Following the tutorial, I had one error that said my laptop security setting doesn't allow to use an external startup disk, just follow the instruction to change the setting and problem solved. Thanks a lot!!!
Thanks for sharing, can you please share the security instructions
Yes please, I'm stuck here too. Thank you in advance
Thank you for this VERY helpful video! My 2018 MacBook Pro running Mojave died and I bought a used one to replace it. It had Monterey loaded on it and the Time Machine restore wouldn't work with that OS on it. I didn't figure that out completely for a long time. So I realized I needed to load Mojave on the new used computer and I followed your fine instructions. After that, I restored (Command R) (NOT transfer data but restored) from my Time Machine backup. This last step is not in this video (in case you have a similar problem). 🙂
My Touch Bar stopped working when I updated to Monterey. Apple store wanted to charge me $596 to fix a “hardware issue” when clearly it was software related. Glad I took the time to learn how to do this!
Thanks so much for the taking the time to do this video! I was able to downgrade from Monterey to Mojave; this helped tremendously. Thank you!!!
Thank you Farez, your instructions were perfect. I had numerous issues with Monterey and Logic Pro. Now everything is running well again with Big Sur 👍👍
Hi Ross, was the playhead missing out n Logic Pro? I went from High Sierra to Catalina on my iMac in 2020 and lost the playhead on Logic. I was thinking of going back to High Sierra but if Big Sur works that maybe an option too. I update my MacBook Pro initially to Catalina and that worked fine with Logic Pro so that was the reason I decided to upgrade my desktop lol. Not used the desktop since
Awesome.. glad to hear things are back to normal 😀
you just turned my brain upside down. now i can finally rum my fave programs which couldn't run on monterey. you are a genius, thank you!
Thank you for your kind feedback. May I know what apps you were having trouble after updating to macOS Monterrey ?
@@ExcelExciting this is actually some plug-ins i use to record songs and demos in ableton live such as addictive drums, bias amp etc. lots of them just crush over and over again. same thing in logic x pro, that’s why i prefer older version :)
i also had some troubles with crossover, wine (oh man, i can’t live a life without it!) and topazlabs gigapixel to edit photos in high resolution. everything was just crushing every time as i mentioned before. now i’m the happiest person alive. thanks a lot again!!
@@ExcelExciting I know FL studios doesn’t work well or at all with the update.
Oh my goodness, I’ve been trying for weeks to get mine to downgrade to Big Sur! Reading different articles and nothing seemed to work except for this video. Thank you very much and it was such an easy process!! 😊🙏🏽
Fantastic tutorial! Thank you so much for sharing. You got my mac out of a lot of trouble
Thank you man! Downgrading from Monterey. MacBook Pro 2015
Glad it helped! may I know what made you go for downgrade..
Couldn't able to erase the APPLE SSD
please help
Thank You Buddy This Helped Me Alot. was stucked with Catalina 😵 finally switched back to mojave ❤️❤️❤️
Glad to hear your issue was resolved :)
I tooken an error after downloaded mojave which is something like “could not verified the update”. What should ı do?
Great Video Faraz, I managed to downgrade my MacBook Air 2018 following your exact steps! Keep up the amazing work!
Excellent video, made my life so much easier than reading a million forums. I downgraded because an audio program I purchased in the past wasn't working on Monterrey.
I got a message that says this copy of “install macOS” application is too old to be opened on this version of macOS. Would you happen to know what i should do from there?
Yes, this message was expected, no worries as we are downloading Old macOS copy..
@@ExcelExciting But what is there to do in this case? I also have this Message and dont know what the next steps should be
@@francescorosariogalea9106 i know bro
DONE DOWNGRADE FROM CATALINA TO MOJAVE EASY WITH GOOD EXPLAIN THANKS BRO,,, HELPING FOR MY WORK BYPASS OLS IPADS
Your welcome dear :)
This video (and added links in description) is outstanding and really helped clear some stuff up for me! Thank you soooo much! =)
You're very welcome!
Hey man, unsure why this is happening to me but when I try to create a bootable drive - terminal tells me "MYUSB is not a valid volume mount point."
I also erased the drive thru disk utility and saved it as a "Mac OS extended (journaled)" . Any other ideas to get the thrumbdrive to work?
same issue occurring to me as well
I had an old drive do this to me as well
Went to a drug store bought a new 8 gig drive
Erased it
(Mac OS journaled)
No problems now.
Thank you so much Faraz! I feel like a computer scientist 😂 I was able to successfully downgrade from macOS Monterey to Big Sur! and keep my data! yeeee! now I just gotta figure out how to get my old IMovie and Microsoft Office files back cause they're still incompatible 😭
Office files shouldn’t be incompatible… you are the boss now !! You know how to fix the Mac 💻 🫡
Hey ! How do I put back everything after I finish the process?
you can use the time machine or just manually drag and drop..
Cheers Faraz ya legend, easy instructions made an easy job :)
Hey Faraz, this was really helpful 😄🙏🏼 thanks for making this video!
Thank Faraz! Had a Mac mini Logic board replaced and they sent it back with Monterey installed but we use Mojave on all computers in our studio setup
This is exactly the video I needed for the downgrade!
Thanks for the video Faraz! I will try iti today. For Late 2015 IMac what OS do you recomand? thanks and succes in all
Thank you Faraz, wish I found you earlier. I had corrupted my system by making a bad downgrade previously. It was acting up and now I have to redo this step. Gotten a lot of unnecessary education about T2 chip and missing admin privileges!
The main reason for the downgrade are software not working or performing properly on the 64bit architecture of Monterey. Too many bugs
Man, you just made me happy, its so powerful feeling, keep on doing your things, this video helped me a Lot ! Easy, straight, simple, thank you !
Thanks for clear instruction.
I downgraded from Mojave because my Office and Adobe pro licences didn’t work with it - so went back to HighSierra
Hmmm… in Terminal, erasing disk 100%, copying to disk 100% but then states… ‘IA app name cookie write failed… The copy of the installer app failed’.
Any ideas anyone as I’ve been going around and around for sometime trying to sort this. I’m trying to downgrade from Big Sur to Mojave so the software I have from previous Mac will work etc.
Same issue here
Thank you for this tutorial. I am going to downgrade to Mojave as well, because Monterey turned out to be a complete and utter nightmare for my late 2015 iMac. Gigantic memory leaks all the time, unable to work on the machine as it kept freezing (despite 32 GB of RAM). In all of the years using iMacs, I have never seen a worse OS than MOnterey. WTF were they thinking when they put this garbage out?
How can I upgrade when my iMac doesn’t work anymore
Since upgrading I can’t even use chrome
Safari doesn’t show up
I have no way to use my computer or work ….
What I can recommend you here is, make a bootable USB drive as showed in the video, I know you cannot do it with you system, you need another mac to get this done...
Once you are done make sure to backup you important data & then boot you system using this USB hope this work fine with no issues..
Hey Faraz, this help me lot, i like the way you are explaining, its very clear thank you
hey how's it going? :) ty for the vid! ...I was trying to install a driver of a perfectly working sound card that I have on my Big Sur, but it's not letting me ...do you know maybe how to make it work?
Unfortunately, I have no clue try installing the OS again. I hope that should work
@@ExcelExciting tnx anyways 🙏
Thank you Faraz for the easy to follow instructions. Need to downgrade cause I needed an OS that worked on lower ram.
Faraz I have a 2019 Mac Pro and I was wondering if I upgrade the boot drive to Monterey (or other newer MacOS) will it always let you downgrade? I have heard that once the firmware is upgraded to a certain point you may not be able to downgrade. Do you know if this is true? Thanks, great video !
Hi, my friend. I'm stuck with the " erase main disk" part. When I click on erase nothing happens.
Would be amazing some help 😬😬
Please check you might be not selecting the drive correctly.. this common issue which happened to me as well :)
Hey, so I was stuck in the same boat that the erase button wouldn’t work… Follow everything he says on the video up until the erase part (if the erase part doesn’t work for you obviously).. I shut the MacBook down.. then powered it on.. press Command and R until it boots you to “Monterey Recovery”. Once in “Monterey Recovery” it’ll look similar to those erase instructions (recovery mode Faraz is showing) except you won’t be able to “show all devices”. Erase your internal disk.. give it a name and choose APFS and erase. It should work… once you’re done erasing exit this recovery mode. Turn off your Mac. Turn it back on and continue with Fazal’s instructions… (right when he said turn it on and hold the option key) … obviously there won’t be nothing to erase since you just did it in Monterey recovery. Continue with installing the MacOS you want. Hope this helps. Sorry if it’s extra wordy…and sorry if it doesn’t work for you like it worked for me. Good luck!
it doesn't work for me, I click the install from the external drive and it goes always to Internet recovery and reinstalls Monterey
I'm facing the same problem
Brilliant Faraz! Installed High Sierra on a MacBook that obviously couldn’t handle Catolina. Thank you.
Thanks for your feedback, I faced lot of issue after upgrade.. I found my Mac dying to run the OS
Has this worked on a M1 MacBook Pro 14” bade model?
7:12 I am unable to erase the drive - when I click Erase nothing happens and I'm still stuck on that screen. Any ideas?
Happening to me too, please help
same
Help us please!!!!
Are you erasing it from main hierarchy? What is file type have you select ?
Thank you, it worked for me. If anyone has mac older than 2017 then mojave is the one you should go for.
Thank you for your valuable feedback.. this will be helpful for the community... !!
been looking for a comment like this. So my Pro 2016 has a fan issue, but apparently when I formatted it, it went back to Mojave and the fan noise disappeared and battery health was excellent. I then stupidly upgraded it to Monterey, and the constant fan noise came back. but I think I am going to downgrade again to the OS the laptop came with. Do you know why it behaves like this though????
Thank you so much! Everything went smoothly, however when I try to restore my files with Time Machine, it doesn't show my latest back up.
Could you please help? My files are definitely backed up into an external hard drive. Is it possibly because the backup was done in Ventura, therefore cannot restore in Mojave?
Yes you are right.. you need to manually move the files.
I have Lightroom 5 currently installed. Will I loose it if I downgrade?
Thank you
that's also my question.. will all the applications be gone after downgrading??
You check the Lightroom 5 configuration what OS dose it support.. your OS in the list then it should work
Hi, Faraz! I need your help please. I need to contact you.
I followed every step of your tutorial. Got it to Catalina from Monterey, but I can't transfer my files using Time Machine. I really need my files and I'm stressed out that I can't transfer it. Please reply!
Sure you can connect me on Facebook messenger facebook.com/ExcelExciting/
@@ExcelExciting messaged you already! Hope you can reply ASAP
Hi... The instructions are great. However I hit the wall. I cannot erase my internal Apple HDD on iMac, I pressed the erase button but didn't bring me anywhere. Any suggestions please?
I've got the same issue. It's quite frustrating.
Hey, so I was stuck in the same boat that the erase button wouldn’t work… Follow everything he says on the video up until the erase part (if the erase part doesn’t work for you obviously).. I shut the MacBook down.. then powered it on.. press Command and R until it boots you to “Monterey Recovery”. Once in “Monterey Recovery” it’ll look similar to those erase instructions (recovery mode Faraz is showing) except you won’t be able to “show all devices”. Erase your internal disk.. give it a name and choose APFS and erase. It should work… once you’re done erasing exit this recovery mode. Turn off your Mac. Turn it back on and continue with Fazal’s instructions… (right when he said turn it on and hold the option key) … obviously there won’t be nothing to erase since you just did it in Monterey recovery. Continue with installing the MacOS you want. Hope this helps. Sorry if it’s extra wordy…and sorry if it doesn’t work for you like it worked for me. Good luck!
Thank you for a straight forward tutorial on this. Really appreciate it. 👍
After downgrading does macOS still receives future updates?
great video! helped tons! my macbook air ran so slow on monteray
I did not understand if you have to copy MacOs Mjave into the new rebooted usb drive? shall I copy and paste it?
Very nice and helpful video. I subscribed 🖤🖤🖤
life saver huge thanks wanted to downgrade back to big sur and get my sound back on my macbook pro hated using blue tooth all the time with monterey which messed up my audio but everything now back to normal
Hi, mine stuck on copying installer files to disk
Can I do this without formatting my SSD? Just want to install Mojave over Big Sur and keep my files. Which step should I take? Thanks.
You can do that but you need make partition on your drive, as you cannot overwrite in the same drive.
Formatting was do the clean installation on your system..
Hey mate
I've got
Mac book 2016 touch bar, Im quite skeptical if I can downgrade it to High Serra.
What do you think?
Faraz, my drive cant be erased. What todo? Nothing happen when erase button is cliked.
Hey, so I was stuck in the same boat that the erase button wouldn’t work… Follow everything he says on the video up until the erase part (if the erase part doesn’t work for you obviously).. I shut the MacBook down.. then powered it on.. press Command and R until it boots you to “Monterey Recovery”. Once in “Monterey Recovery” it’ll look similar to those erase instructions (recovery mode Faraz is showing) except you won’t be able to “show all devices”. Erase your internal disk.. give it a name and choose APFS and erase. It should work… once you’re done erasing exit this recovery mode. Turn off your Mac. Turn it back on and continue with Fazal’s instructions… (right when he said turn it on and hold the option key) … obviously there won’t be nothing to erase since you just did it in Monterey recovery. Continue with installing the MacOS you want. Hope this helps. Sorry if it’s extra wordy…and sorry if it doesn’t work for you like it worked for me. Good luck!
Nice and easy to follow tutorial
Glad to hear that you found it helpful
Do you have to do the terminal part of this process in order to download??
I'm trying to downgrade from Catalina to High Sierra. After turning on the computer (6:00min) by holding the "option"key I get a black screen, so my key doesn't work as startup. I've to Cmd +R keys but I get into the MacOS Recovery utility window with Catalina back again as option to reInstall. Is there is another way to access the High Sierra external drive installer/ volume without the option key as startup?. I appreciate your response. thanks!
i have the same problem, only giveme option to choise monterey i need catalina
same here😢 do you solve it now?
This is awesome my friend. this help a lot... I had to downgrade because Monterey stopped my HDMI display. now i can upgrade Mijave to C😁atalina
Thank u so much faraz, i was facing many lags and slow performance in monterey on my mac minilate 2014, successfully downgraded to mojave❤❤
Glad I could help :)
Wow you really helped me! Thank you mate! 😊
I have a question. Did the touchbar and touch ID continue to work normally? Or it stops working?
Sooo Helpful! Thanks so much.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for this video! I had to downgrade Mac to older version to use the software with some hardware that will not run on newer Mac OS versions.
the only problem i was facing while downgrading is that when i was trying to download the os from app store it was saying that my system is up to date, as i was running monterey..then i came across the solution is that i need to open my mac in safe mode to download the os and it worked for me, rest is asshown in this video thank you so much....guys dont upgrade...its a trap
Can I use a USB flash drive for the bootable USB?
thanks for helpful video. i use mac for making music and most of my important plug ins are 32 bit because macOS Monterey works in 64 bit only i have to downgrade my Imac 2020 i9 to mojave but unfortunately i cant finde the mojave installer.
is there any possibelity to upload your installer on some sharing website?
or do you know where i can download Mojave?
thanks al lot.
How long does it take to get to the step after clicking the right os downgrade
so if i purchase a new computer from apple right now, will i be able to downgrade it with this process to Big Sur?
Depends if your configuration supports that version
EXCELLENT! You are an excellent instructor! Thank you!
Thank You for your kind words, may I know the reason for downgrading you mac 💻
Thank You so much for this! Downgraded from Monterey to Big Sur as it made my 2015 MBP extremely slow and buggy.
Hi Faraz thank you for doing up this video! trying my luck to reach you to check on what is "The default interactive shell is now zsh."? This was shown in my Terminal.
Excellent video
Hi Faraz! is there a way to downgrade without uninstalling the programs? I especially wish Avid Media Composer would not be deleted.
Hello 👋🏼
I have have MacBook Pro 2019 and i do everything but when I connect the usb-c not showing the os
Great Tutorial Faraz, worked well! You are very clear with all the steps, really appriciate that!
I downgraded to Catalina because of older (otherwise incompatible) software and that I like Catalina's interface and speed.
Thanks Faraz, that is super clear and helpful!
Awesome.. glad to hear you liked it 😀
@@ExcelExciting saved my life, wish more people would see it! ❤️
thank you dearly for this video! it helped me a ton! monterey gave me so many issues on my imac. it became super slow and all my graphic software were not supported. a real pain that new ios. happy to be back on mojave! cheers
Hi Faraz, after downgrade system being install, what about the Apps we previously install in the system, it will still there, or we have to reinstall 1 by 1?
did the apps remain or not
Hey I tried to follow it step by step but somehow at format stage (7:08) it is just not allowing me to press ERASE. Any tips around this?
what is the error you are getting ?
@@ExcelExciting hi thanks for the reply. No error just I’m trying endlessly trying to press erase and the icon is pressing but not moving forward
Hey, so I was stuck in the same boat that the erase button wouldn’t work… Follow everything he says on the video up until the erase part (if the erase part doesn’t work for you obviously).. I shut the MacBook down.. then powered it on.. press Command and R until it boots you to “Monterey Recovery”. Once in “Monterey Recovery” it’ll look similar to those erase instructions (recovery mode Faraz is showing) except you won’t be able to “show all devices”. Erase your internal disk.. give it a name and choose APFS and erase. It should work… once you’re done erasing exit this recovery mode. Turn off your Mac. Turn it back on and continue with Fazal’s instructions… (right when he said turn it on and hold the option key) … obviously there won’t be nothing to erase since you just did it in Monterey recovery. Continue with installing the MacOS you want. Hope this helps. Sorry if it’s extra wordy…and sorry if it doesn’t work for you like it worked for me. Good luck!
Thanks so much this worked well for me,subscribed.
Thanks so much Faraz! I had a question, after I went through ‘Install macOS’ part, it went back to the same window after it showed the loading bar. Now it shows options Install OS, Disk Utility, etc. but it doesn’t go anywhere further than that. It doesn’t let me click anything either. Has that happened to you mac too?
Wow it was great information thank u so much❤
I liked it
You are incredible bro, best video I found by far. Thank you!!
Ia it possible to downgrade to an OS that was prior to my receiving the laptop? Older than what was shipped with it?
Hi Faraz, I am stuck in a typical problem while following the steps could you please help me out here
What is that small white memory called??
hey for some reason it says “Install macOS Monterey“ cannot be opened from a newer version of macOS. which is ventura
Ultra helpful. Appreciate you taking the time to create this! My 2019 Macbook Air performs far better on Mojave than Monterey :)
Glad to hear Akshay you found it helpful.. what was original OS on the mac ?
@@ExcelExciting Mojave
@@akshayhemmady1 cool !!!
You explained in a very good way. Solved my problem.
when i hold down option it just boots my mac normally instead of opening the drive selection menu