i want to restart my macbook so i can set the entire thing up as if i just opened it from the box. every message, etc, that pops up on my iPhone simultaneously pops up on my mac because i mistakenly used my iPhone ID when setting up my mac yesterday after i purchased it. i want my mac to have its own identity (email, iCloud account,etc). how can i reboot my entire software so i can return to the initial setting-up stages?
MacBook Air, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)
Boot into the recovery partition, erase the SSD and reinstall the OSX.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314
All user data will be deleted unless you back it up first.
Ciao.
should i back it up first? i have no information stored on my mac yet other than the data and info that came with it. what will i lose if i don't back it up? and also, when i get to the utilities section, click on "erase disk" instead of "reinstall os", then when thats done then reinstall os?
If you have no user information on the Mac, then there is nothing to back up.
Reformat the SSD in Disk Utility>Erase, exit Disk Utility and then select reinstall OSX.
Ciao.
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