How to Reset Locked Macbook Pro Apple Silicon M1 Factory Settings

hi welcome Simon here and hope you're doing well in this video I'm going to show it to you how to reset the computer back to factory settings where you can bypass the iCloud active lock or maybe you want to wipe the computer clean and stuff fresh again or maybe you just bought it off from Marketplace or correct place and there's a username here and you just cannot get in you do not know the password and you're stuck with this computer what should I do all right so I'm going to walk you through how you're going to reset it you take control you have the ownership back uh fresh restart using this process alright so just kind of show it to you I try to cover up the username I do not want to show that in public so let me go ahead and click on this user and let's just say that you know the password I do not know the password I'm just gonna put random one to zero and I hit enter it will say incorrect I'll try a different password hit enter it's incorrect so I'm stuck with this I do not know what to do so let's go ahead and get started let's go ahead and shut down the computer making sure that you have the charger plugged into the computer because we're going to do a reset it may take some time where you need to have the power plugged in all the time now if you're not sure what model it is uh go check your serial number and look it up the two types of CPU one of them is Apple silicon M1 CPU or the Intel processor CPU mine here the laptop 13 Pro Macbook Pro 13 is running on the M1 meaning that this is the Apple silicon so what I'm going to do is press and hold the power button [Music] and you're going to see the screen that says continue holding or startup option loading startup option and you can let go the power button for an Intel base you have to press and hold command r for the Intel based CPU command AR for the recovery but for Apple silicon you press and hold the power button until you load up the option okay so here at this point here I have the option being load up you can see that the Macintosh hard drive and option is available I'm going to click on option here for now and click continue and try to cover up if there's any user ID or whatnot okay it will bring me to the user ID page uh here this is the user ID page I can slightly show it to you you can see that the user one of the user here uh uh I mean that is an Eagle logo so it's fine but the other user had had a pictures on it so I do not want to show you that okay now here you can see that it says Mac recovery what you want to do is go to the top left corner where you can click on the recovery assistant and then click on erase Mac when you click on erase Mac here it's going to show it to you that says if you're unable to unlock this Mac you can fully erase it and reinstall Mac OS this will delete all media data and settings on all volumes on this Mac and internet connection will be required to reactivate this Mac and reinstall OS alright so read the instruction and you should understand we are erasing the computer back to factory settings and I'm not getting any of the data so I agree to that I would say erase Mac let's go ahead and erase it so the computer is in a process running through the um erasing the laptop and we need to connect to the Internet so you bring you the page I'm going to connect to my Wi-Fi and this process might take some time so stay tuned if you feel free want to skip forward and fast forward you're welcome to do that I'm just going the entire process here without cutting the screen without stopping the screen recording and I just wanted to show it to you from start to finish the entire process instead of holding a computer I'm trying to have something here to lift the screen up so I don't have to keep holding it okay I don't think I need to cover the screen I think that was the last section of showing the user and the pictures I think okay select Wi-Fi network from the menu attached or the cable so what I'm going to do is going to the top right corner there's the Wi-Fi little signal and I'm going to select the 5G which is a lot faster I'm typing in my password Here once I type in the password I click join okay I'm now connected to the Wi-Fi do you think it's better without the light you guys can see better Mac is activated your Mac is activated what does that mean so let's see if we can erase the Mac again the process erase Mac this what we need to do erase the Mac all right so you bring you to the page select language I'll be using English in my purpose I'm going to click next which is the arrow so he's going to examine the volumes so like Wi-Fi I'll be selecting the Wi-Fi come on okay once I select the Wi-Fi phrase connecting what okay the Wi-Fi is connected this is your Mac is activated exit the recovery and here is what we need to do we can reinstall the Mac so what I'm going to do is erase the disk first continue and I'll be selecting view show all devices selecting the Apple SSD and erase I'm just going to put Mac SSD for Now erase why is that why can't I erased it make sure no use mixed Journal extender see if that works Mac SSD so if I install [Music] without deleting it I'm confused well let's try agree agree oh it's already erased no wonder so the total is 494 and available is 494 so that means the hard drive was already erased okay well I'm not sure maybe it's erasing now but I thought I need to erase first so apologize there's a misstep right there apologize so it takes about 3 hours and zero minutes remaining I'm not sure why it's going to take that long but we'll I'll just gonna wait okay it shouldn't be thick maybe half an hour maybe hopefully less right just stay tuned guys foreign foreign I'm just going to move the arrow closer to the bar making sure that the progress is still going I do not want to film this and and nothing is working so just gonna wait see what's going on here about a minute remaining well yeah I guess we just wait foreign it should be done by now not sure why it's taking so long foreign finally I guess it waited at one minute the longest one minute ever now the computer is restarting Apple logos coming up rebooting so let's see that was fast and the bar just finished Split Second it should bring us to the setup screen and once we get to the setup screen that means the ownership of yourself we should just reset the computer then you can take control of it okay so we bring you to the setup page as I was predicted and go ahead and select the country or the region I'll be selecting United States and whatnot so pretty much at this point here you can do your own setup when you finish setting up the computer you are the new ownership of the laptop this contains a built-in screen reader yeah I got it if you know how to use voiceover press the command key while you press Touch ID three times at the right end of the touch bar she sounds funny learn how to use voices to set up your Mac press the Escape I thought I thought a different Mac OS sounds better but anyway I was explaining that now this is the ownership that you reset it set it up and you're good to go so um I know that this video is a lengthy process about half an hour or so and um well sorry that you guys had to wait for this long but I just do not want to skip any process no editing on the video it just start to finish and this is the entire process on how to do it so hopefully you'll like it and if you do find this video helpful please go ahead and smash the like button for me I really appreciate you for just liking the video comments down below if you have any question comments I do read your comments and I do answer any of the computer questions that you have okay and again if you want to show appreciation click on the super tanks super thanks a lot you to show appreciation donate to my channel and thanks for doing that until next time bye now

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Length: 33min 21sec (2001 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 18 2023