If you’re planning on trading in or selling your current MacBook, it’s important to perform a factory reset before handing it over. This will erase all of the data you’ve stored and used on the laptop and prevent it from falling into the wrong hands.
How to EASILY erase and factory reset your Mac!
In this post, we’ll explain all the ways you can wipe your M1 or M2 Mac, how the process differs from resetting an older MacBook, and how to troubleshoot issues you might encounter during the process. Let’s get started.
Since Apple released the first MacBook Air with its M1 chip in 2020, many other Macs have been powered by more versions of Apple Silicon in the years since. This list contains the names of all supported Mac computers specifically powered by Apple M-series silicon that can be wiped using the recovery methods in this post:
Regardless of what you plan to do with your Mac after erasing it, there are a few things you should do on your Mac before erasing its data and reinstalling macOS. If this is your first time attempting to erase a Mac, follow these steps to ensure that your existing data on your Mac is safe and inaccessible to anyone other than you:
