Boot Camp not supporting APFS

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Boot Camp not supporting APFS

After purchasing the brand-new 2018 i9 MacBook Pro, I've realized that it only allows for High Sierra to be installed on an APFS-formatted drive. However, Boot Camp tells me this:

This is incredibly unfortunate, as I was hoping to install Windows 10 and Kali Linux later on down the road. Mojave does the same thing. I believe Apple just needs to update Boot Camp to support APFS, no? I haven't figured out a way to downgrade my Mac to whatever last OS allowed Mac OS Extended instead of APFS. That's a bit disappointing...

Has anyone run into this problem and figured out a solution to it?

MacBook Pro TouchBar and Touch ID, macOS High Sierra (10.13.6), null

Posted on Aug 1, 2018 10:29 PM

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Answer 1

Loner T

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Aug 2, 2018 5:16 AM in response to SW84036

Bootcamp does support APFS. From Terminal, post the output of

diskutil list

If you have excessive number of Local Snapshots, it can cause space issues. See About Time Machine local snapshots - Apple Support as a reference.

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SW84036 Author

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Aug 1, 2018 11:14 PM in response to Kappy

That's exactly my issue. For whatever reason, the new MBP will not even let me install macOS High Sierra unless the startup disk is formatted as APFS. I'd like to have both macOS and Windows going if that's possible.

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