Error "Failed to Activate Device" on MacBook Pro after erasing it

Hi! Thanks for sharing first. But I've tried so many times to restore my mac mini with m2 chip, and that helped nothing. Everytime after I restored my mac and restarted it, I was led to the activate mac page again. Would you like to share more details about your experience? Like did you use apple configurator or just in finder? And what did you see after you restored your mac and restarted it again, was you led to the activate page again and this time activated successfully? Or just skipped activation progress? I'll be very appreciate. I'm having the same issue for almost one week. That made me so sad. Thanks for your reply again and wish you have a nice day.

Hi! Thanks do much for sharing us about that. I have some free time and I’d like to try this method because I do need my Mac this weekend, and I don’t think Apple could solve this problem in this week. Before I do that, would you like you share some details about your try? Did you use Apple Configurator or just finder on another Mac? And did you remember what’s the sign of success? Is that the same as Activate Mac page or just skipped activation? I’ll be very appreciate for that. Thanks again and wish you have a great day. 

I need my Mac every day, so I bought it and it wasn't cheap. I think it's disrespectful on Apple's part to leave us without a solution for so many days. The DFU method may work, but what do people who only have one Mac do? Does Apple offer the other one to do the method?

How did it go? Did they know about this problem? And what did they do to fix it?

This would be very helpful even for other Genius Bar visitors to know as well as for the employees at Apple stores.

Up until now the Apple Employees and service and support teams in Germany have no clue what to do and how to solve this. This is really annoying and ridiculous as one can imagine.

aplle's information is that you either have to pay a technician to do the DFU mode or get another one, they won't solve anything. i've already canceled the pre-purchase of the Iphone 16 and i'll never buy anything from apple again for shame.

Did you use Apple Configurator with Apple Silicon Chipset ?

I have the same probleme, I've tried to restore in DFU mode my MBP M3 Pro with an MBA M3 but after downloading the firmware, nothing else since 15 min and return to finder 🥵

Maybe, can I use Apple Configurator ?

The last comment on this thread was about a month ago. However it happened to me yesterday. So evidently the problem at Apple's end is not resolved.

I went through the Erase All Contents and Settings process on my 2018 Macbook Air, and now I have the Failed to Activate screen.

I had Monterey on the MacBook, and I have a MacMini Pro M2 with Ventura, but the Apple Configurator app won't download unless I upgrade the OS to Sonoma.

I'd like to know if others are still having this problem. Make me feel a bit less alone with this .

This is still an issue. Erased all contents on my old Mac Mini 2018 (12.7.6) in preparation to give to a family member. Now I'm stuck on Failed to activate device. Retried activation over 20 times, but stills fails.

I may give the DFU recovery a try if I have some spare time. Thankfully, this was not a critical system. I can't imagine the frustration some of you must be having if this is happening to your daily use system.

Apple definitely seems to be having issues with activation currently i have found many posts on reddit with this same issue

I have the same problem with 2 MacBook Air M2.

me too，why so stupid

I think it's disrespectful because after more than a week we still have the problem.