In my previous video I warn you against risk of bricking your Apple Silicon M1 MacBook
Pro, MacBook Air or Mac mini if you will erase your SSD in a good will you will then be able
to restore clean macOS Big Sur onto it back.
In fact that's exactly what happened to me.
Unfortunately there is currently a bug in macOS or firmware which is still not fixed
at this moment.
But don't worry, there is an easy and fast solution, how to bring back your Apple Silicon
M1 Mac to life.
So clean up your tears, I will show you in this video easy way and step by step how to
do it.
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Really don't worry, the whole procedure is in fact super easy and straightforward and
I will show you everything live step by step.
So what will you need.
Unfortunately you will need some another "healthy" Mac.
It can be really any Mac, Intel or M1, does not matter.
Then all you'll need is just a USB-C to USB-C cable.
All of you have probably the original Apple charger which came with the M1 MacBooks, so
in this demonstration I will use exactly cable this one.
One important thing.
On the "bricked" machine you have to connect it to the top most port, simply to the port
closest to screen.
And now connect the second end of the cable to your "healthy" Mac.
So on the right I have the bricked MacBook Pro M1, which I will bring back to life using the
left one, in this case MacBook Air M1.
Now download Apple Configurator 2 application from Apple App Store. Direct link I prepared for you in this video description.
And open this App.
Now let's shutdown the bricked MacBook and during start you will need to follow exactly
this procedure of pressing keys.
Really, listen carefully!
Press the start button and keep it pressed.
After about a second also press left Control and left Option key and at the same time on
the right side press right Shift key.
So keep holding all these keys together for about 10 seconds, then release all keys but
still keep pressing only the power button until you will see on the healthy MacBook
display the DFU rectangle.
So again.
Press start button and keep it pressed.
After about a second also press left Control, left Option key and right Shift key.
Keep holding all these keys together for about 10 seconds, then release all keys but still
keep pressing only the power button until you will see on the healthy MacBook the DFU rectangle.
Congratulations the most difficult part is done Now click somewhere inside of the DFU
rectangle and in the top menu choose Actions and Restore.
Now it will download the latest macOS Installer and firmware and it will be automatically
transferred to the bricked MacBook Pro M1.
So now just sit and relax, smoke some good things, get a bier, because this will take
long time, in my case it took about 15 minutes.
When this will all finish, your bricked MacBook will automatically reboot and you will be
greeted with the same welcome screen you can see on all Apple devices when you will start
them for the first time.
In fact we've now done the same exact process Apple is doing on their side when preparing
new Macs for shipping to customer.
Congratulations, now you fixed your bricked Apple Silicon M1 Mac.
Now you can setup this MacBook as a fresh device from scratch, but you can also restore
it from Time Machine backup or even directly clone everything from some of your other Mac.
I personally tested all of these methods and all worked without any problem.
So as I promised on the beginning, it's nothing difficult, but super easy.
In fact I will use since now this method to deploy all my new devices.
This Apple Configurator app is very useful, you can use it for many other use cases, also
for iOS devices, so I would recommend read documentation and enjoy it.
I linked for you the official Apple Configurator 2 User Guide" Apple support page in this video
description.
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