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Prepare an internal drive for recycling

Q Howshould a friend dispose of his old iMac, to ensure that there’s no data available from it when it goes for recycling?

by ROY MILLINGTON

A Beforehe starts cleaning its internal storage, there’s a list of essential tasks to work through once that Mac has been thoroughly backed up and its contents preserved reliably. Apple silicon Macs and those with T2 chips can do those quickly and cleanly using the Erase All Content and Settings feature in System Settings > General >

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