What to do Before You Sell, Trade-In, or Give Away Your Mac (MacBook Pro, Air, iMac)

Chapters:
0:00 INTRO
0:54 STEPS FOR PRE-2018 (INTEL) MACS
6:32 STEPS FOR 2018 & LATER MACS (M1/M2 CHIP OR T2 SECURITY CHIP)
HOW TO USE APPLE MIGRATION ASSISTANT: support.apple.com/en-us/HT204350
How To Erase and Reset Macbook to Sell, Trade-In or Give Away!
In this video we'll show you the exact steps you need to take to properly erase and reset macbook pro, macbook air or other Mac computers running MacOS Monterey, Big Sur or Catalina.
First we’ll show you what to do if you have an Intel Mac. Then we’ll show you the steps for Macs with the apple silicon chip or Apple T2 Chip running macOS Monterey.

[@FrenchHawk878]

Just want to add that if you're giving back to Apple for a trade in then you don't have to reinstall anything. Once you remove your accounts like icloud and back up your data (whichever order depending on what you're doing), you can then "erase all content and settings". Then you're done.

[@Plastik13]

Hi, I had securely erased a movie (by writing 0 and 1 over the file). When I used a data recovery tool, the software found the title of the video (Titanic.avi) and the size of the video (750 Mo), but was unable to read the video saying that it was corrupted. It makes sense that the file was corrupted since the core of the file was overwritten. My question is : how come the file of the video was deleted by the secure erasing (wiping) but not the name and the size of the video ?

[@radialtech]

Hi Mike, this video is about just erasing your mac to get it ready to sell or give away, and the steps that Apple recommends. There might be another video or channel on KZbin that addresses your question more specifically. Good luck!