
Enter a name for your drive and click on Erase.
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Select the main Mac hard drive and click on the Erase option at the top. Choose your main Mac hard drive and click on the – (minus) sign in the toolbar. Select Disk Utility from the options available on your screen. Restart your Mac and press and hold down ⌘ (Cmd) + R keys when your Mac starts to boot-up. You’ll need to do this from the recovery mode on your Mac. You need to delete and wipe clean all the contents from your Mac so that the new buyer can’t access any of your data. Now here comes the most important part before selling your Mac. You have now disabled FileVault successfully. Select the FileVault tab and click on Turn Off FileVault. Click on the Security & Privacy option. Click on the Apple logo at the top and select System Preferences. If you had encrypted your file contents, you would like to decrypt your disk by disabling the FileVault. That’s it, your Mac is signed out from the current Apple ID. Click the Delete button which is located next to the device you want to associate with the profile. Go to Manage Devices and look at the data. Choose Store – go to the View Account section. To totally dissociate the Apple ID from a particular laptop before selling or giving it to another person, follow these steps: But, under some circumstances, you may need to unlink from the MacBook.
The latest versions of OS X also use this ID to access the Mac user account as well. It’s usually used to access varied services, including iCloud, App Store, and iTunes. Sign Out from iTunes, iCloud, and App StoreĪll people who buy Apple devices get their unique Apple ID. After these steps, all of your data will be safe, including apps, documents, photos, etc. Finally, you should press the “Create a backup now” button, which can be found in the utility or on the right side of the bar. First of all, connect this device with the MacBook, go to system settings, make Time Machine active, and choose the device where you are going to store the backups. It’s required to have an external HDD/network drive of the appropriate size to back up your MacBook. Plus, it’s preinstalled on all Macs, so you don’t have to look for third-party apps. With it, you can recover both individual files and the entire system.
Time Machine is an easy and convenient way to back up your MacBook. If the necessary information is lost or you are going to move to a new computer, every user can restore this data from the backup. The backup stores all of your data on the MacBook, including documents, installed applications, passwords, etc.