How do I downgrade from Big Sur to Catalina?

Dear Apple,

I do not like Big Sur. I just downloaded it last night thinking it was going to be better but it doesn't satisfy me. I liked Catalina a whole lot better and so I tried to find out how to downgrade to Catalina but there are too many ways and it's hard to understand! I just want to switch back to Catalina! What's so bad about downgrading to a previous version of Mac OS, the whole point of me buying an Apple product is to be satisfied with what I use. I tried to do it myself, but I couldn't find Catalina in the App Store like I needed to. I don't understand why there isn't a simple way to downgrade and I think there should definitely be a feature that allows users to downgrade.

Someone please help.

MacBook Pro

Posted on Nov 15, 2020 3:33 PM

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JustAQTCub

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Posted on Nov 30, 2020 9:39 PM

Hello,

You can download Mac OS Catalina by following the below link... it will take you to the Apple Online App Store. However, you will not be able to downgrade on a Macintosh HD that already has a newer version, such as Big Sur. You will have to erase the Macintosh HD. If you use the Cloud for everything, your Messages, Photos, Mail, Desktop items, Documents will all download to your Mac once the Mac OS downgrade installation is complete. If you store any of your Music, Movies or TV Shows on your Mac, you will need to back them up on an external drive.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/macos-catalina/id1466841314?mt=12

The provided links below will walk you through a reinstallation... navigate to the lower half of the page to read the section "Other macOS installation options".

How to reinstall macOS

https://sup https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683

How to get old versions of macOS

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683

Best of Luck...

Daniel

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