Reset mac Mini

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Reset mac Mini

I just bout an old mac mini serial number: YM****T0K but the first person never logged out so i need the password to do anything.. Is there anyway to factory reset it with out inputting the password?

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Mac mini 2018 or later

Posted on Oct 19, 2020 9:11 PM

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Tesserax

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Oct 19, 2020 10:23 PM in response to sbron8

Although you could potentially regain access to this mini by creating/resetting the Mac's administrator account, you may be better off completely erasing its system drive and reinstalling a "clean" copy of macOS.

Ref:

How to erase a disk for Mac - Apple Support
Change or reset the password of a macOS user account - Apple Support

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