{"id":14115,"date":"2021-02-04T16:13:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T21:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/?p=14115"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:54:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:54:33","slug":"how-to-reset-your-mac-before-selling-or-giving-it-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/2021\/how-to-reset-your-mac-before-selling-or-giving-it-away\/","title":{"rendered":"How to reset your Mac before selling or donating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        How to reset your Mac before selling or donating\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/215\/Before-you-sell-240x160.png\" alt=\"Before-you-sell graphic\" class=\"wp-image-14117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/215\/Before-you-sell-240x160.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/215\/Before-you-sell-600x400.png 600w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/215\/Before-you-sell-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/215\/Before-you-sell-160x107.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/215\/Before-you-sell-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/215\/Before-you-sell-400x267.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/215\/Before-you-sell-1536x1024.png 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/215\/Before-you-sell-2048x1365.png 2048w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/215\/Before-you-sell-360x240.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Upgrading to a new Mac?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To protect your privacy when you sell or give away your old one, first erase your personal information and files. Even if you trust the person receiving your old Mac, there&#8217;s the risk of a later malware infection recovering your personal details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately <em>before you sell<\/em> checklists are readily available:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Apple suggest these steps: Backup, Signout, Erase, and reinstall MacOS in <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-ca\/HT201065\">What to do before you sell, give away, or trade in your Mac<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The authoritative site, <a href=\"https:\/\/iMore.com\/\">iMore<\/a> echoes the above, but with screenshots \u00a0and more detail, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imore.com\/how-to-prepare-mac-for-sale\">How to reset your Mac before selling it<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upgrading to a new Mac? To protect your privacy when you sell or give away your old one, first erase your personal information and files. Even if you trust the person receiving your old Mac, there&#8217;s the risk of a later malware infection recovering your personal details. Fortunately before you sell checklists are readily available:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mac-tips","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14121,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14115\/revisions\/14121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}