Select Language and Hit Arrow (bottom right) to continue Select Erase Mac one last time (Wait for Reboot)
Select Recovery Assistant from the Menu bar (no need to type in password if we are wiping this Mac anyways) (5b.) If you have created a user and recovery assistant is asking to "Select a user you know the password for" you will see the menubar item Recovery Assistant and can do the following: Use the onscreen instructions to complete your regular scheduled programming of macOS installer.
Select Reinstall macOS Big Sur and hit continue Exit Disk Utility via the red button in the upper left corner or using the menubar item Disk Utility > Quit Disk Utility. Now name this APFS Volume whatever you please with reckless abandon! But seriously, mac admin OCD dictates "Macintosh HD" (once renamed) hit the return key. Realize that "Yes, indeed you are not crazy!" Apple's own utility left you in the lurch for naming the drive back to "Macintosh HD" for no known reason. Secondary Click (right click) on the "Untitled" APFS Volume under the Internal section, and select Rename Once connected to a network successfully you will see the message "Your Mac is activated." At the Activate Mac screen Select the wi-fi icon in the upper right and enter your wi-fi credentials (ignore if hardwired) (Now the menu bar item will have changed to Recovery Assistant) select Recovery Assistant Click the Terminal option in the drop down menu Click on the Utilities Item in the menu bar (5a.) If this is your first time wiping the machine and/or no user has been created you will see Recovery in the menu bar and will need to do the following: (if the menubar item says Recovery Assistant skip to (5b.) below) (after waiting until the machine is indeed shut down) Hold the power button through startup chime then the "Continue holding for startup options." When you see "Loading startup options." you can now release the power button, it will coast on its own from there.Shut down computer (You can just continue pressing the power button until the device powers off).M1 Mac process for erasing: thanks to for the inspiration PS: I cannot make the online webUI WYSIWYG editor do correct number of my bullet points. Those require the steps we took with ASM as listed above. By itself, this does not resolve your issue with the local accounts, though. There is a terminal command 'reset password' that you may wish to run that will reset some more things.īasically, if you try really really hard you can get the Mac to be back to a factory default state and reinstall the OS. If you miss the Data drive you will end up with another set of problems to resolve.ģ. When in Disk Utility be sure to blow away all volumes, including both Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD Data. It does some magic that dimply deleting the volumes does not appear to do.Ģ. If you get to the very first recovery screen and it is NOT the list of four programs to run (disk utility, reinstall OS, etc) you should check the menu at the very, very top of the screen and look for ERASE MAC. Reboot to recover mode, erase and reinstall the OS.Ī few notes about erasing these Apple Silicon M1 Macsġ. In ASM, re-associate the device with JAMF. Setup Mac as a local, non-MDM-managed Mac to confirm local accounts work again. Reboot to recover mode, erase, reinstall the OS*