How to Erase & Reset any Mac to Factory Settings ║ macOS Catalina

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This is a video on how to perform a hard reset and factory restore on any Mac running MacOS Catalina. I show you 2 methods to reset your Apple iMac to factory settings.

Steps
1. Power off the iMac
2. Power it on and hold "Command" key and "S" key at the same time.
3. Hold until the black screen with all the coding appears.
4. Type in the following
mount -uw / (hit Enter)
rm /var/db/.applesetupdone (hit Enter)
shutdown -h now (hit Enter)
5. The iMac will power off, so just power it back on.
6. Congrats if you got this far your iMac should have been reset.

Disclaimer - A factory data reset both hard or soft will erase all of your personal information on your device and return it to its out of the box state. You are doing this factory data wipe/reset on your device at your own risk. We are not responsible for any problems or technical difficulties caused from trying these techniques.

Things I use in this video

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Thank you for not starting the video with a story that you like to use NordVPN or how you lost your viginity. Just straight to the point. Thanks!

dumpmuch

The instruction was so simple. I am in the process of reinstalling Catalina OS. Thank you very much!!!!

danieldkim

Oh my goodness, Thankyou so much!!! I was unable to reset my old iMac which I wanted to pass on to my brother. Thanks to this video I used the second option and it reset fine. Many Thanks!!!

nshontellp

To reinstall the osx its asking me to sign in with apple id, how can i do it without signing in?

rm

I just got a iMac from a neighbor and he didn't know his password. So this definitely helps. Thank you.

Poke_God

My screen doesn’t go to the max OS utilities when I try and reset it..

mrsavaa

Command and r doesn’t work and the other method command s still takes me to the password page. Any solutions please ?

dee

I couldn’t get the Command S to work but the Command R fix worked like a charm. It’s like a new computer! Yay. Thank you!

cookiebaker

Command S instructions in the details worked great. My computer didnt respond after all the commands but after the shutdown code and enter... The computer erased everything. Like it just came out the box. Thank you

ejones

I’m doing this off windows keyboard and window and r aren’t working. Any tips

h-townfishing

Thanks so much. you're the only place with good instructions

Murek

This was soooo easy to do thanks to you. You are doing great job on YT

dominikarutowicz

Thank you! We had an old Macbook and tried everything to clear it…this worked!!!!

DianaPalm

Does not work for me. I am running bootcamp and the icon to booth into Mac is not there so I have to boot into Mac OS by the keyboard. As soon as I select Mac OS it start to boot into Mac OS and does not see the key press command + r. I have not found how to fix the issue in Windows 10.

GerriL

tried this so many times on my iMac 2012, nothing works, could this option be missing as I bought 2nd hand so no idea what happened to it before I got it!

markfisher