> Prepare an internal drive for recycling
How should a friend dispose of his old iMac, to ensure that there’s no data available from it when it goes for recycling?
Before he 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 that’s found in System Settings > General