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hi everyone Aaron here for Zolo Tech and
I wanted to show you how to format your
Mac or reset it back to factory default
so it's just like it was when you bought
it for the first time this will enable
you to either sell it or return it or
whatever you need to do so the first
thing we need to do is go in and disable
a few things or sign out of a few things
so let's do that now now the first step
we're going to do is the authorize it
from itunes or sign out from iTunes so
we need to go into iTunes go to account
and then sign out now after you've done
that and you've signed out of that now
you need to do the exact same thing for
messages no messages has the account
settings up here preferences and then
you'll get to accounts and then you need
to sign out of here as well now once
you're signed out of that you need to
sign out of iCloud so that's what we'll
do next that's under your system
preferences and under system preferences
find iCloud now the same thing goes here
you want to sign out down here on the
bottom left make sure everything is
signed out now before you do any of this
you need to make sure that you have a
backup if you're trying to replace the
Mac so it's going to continue to ask you
if you want to delete information from
your Mac just keep hitting delete and
then at some point you'll be prompted
for your iCloud password now after you
put in your password it will finally
sign you out of everything and you'll be
good to go as far as that part goes so
it's not associated with you at all
anymore now we're going to shut down the
Mac just go to the Apple in the upper
left and click shut down I'm going to
use command option R as I don't want
this associated with my Apple ID anymore
so hold those down and then hit the
power button keep holding them and give
them a few minutes and then it will boot
up and you can see it will say starting
internet Recovery and then it will boot
up now that it's starting you can let go
of the keys now that it's finished
booting up we'll select our language and
then click Next and then at this point
this is where we need to wipe the drive
so we'll click on Disk Utility and click
continue then here we need to click on
Macintosh hard drive or HD and then
click erase so if we click on erase you
can select the format you'll see it's ap
FS or AP FS encrypted just select ap FS
click erase it will take a few moments
you'll see it completely deleted
everything it says erase process is
complete click done to continue so we'll
click done so now what we need to do is
click the X here and go to reinstall Mac
OS so we'll click continue this will
take a moment and then we'll start to
install the OS all over again so here
you'll see we'll click continue
we'll have to agree to the terms again
click agree then select our drive just
click on the drive then click install
now that it's done we're back to what it
looked like when we first picked it up
and that's really all there is to it now
you can either sell it or do whatever
you need to do to it all of your data
has been white let me know if you have
any other questions in the comments
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