Macbook partitions messed up

[Spiderman 20=99]

Good day everyone. I tried installing Linux mint on my macbook with dual booting.
It gave some errors so I decided to uninstall it.
What I did was just erasing the partition on which the Linux Mint OS was on.
This lead to my SSD just having a empty partition that cannot be used.
How do I merge it so that it can be only MAC SSD again?

I included some screenshots. Thank you.

 

[Fishrrman]

Just some thoughts...

Can you resize the partition?
Can you make it smaller (even if you can't "delete" it)?

Can you erase it to a Mac format?
If so, can you THEN delete it?

Perhaps the only real solution will be to erase the ENTIRE drive and start over.
I'll take a GUESS that to do this you might need a bootable USB flashdrive.

It MIGHT be possible by booting to Apple Silicon recovery.

 

[IconDRT]

In the past, I've booted the ISO Linux image and used Linux to delete the container and free up the space (at least using Pop!_OS and Zorin). You can also try the terminal commands here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/que...d-to-remove-a-container-and-reclaim-the-space

You shouldn't have to wipe the entire drive.

 

[Spiderman 20=99]

Just some thoughts...

Can you resize the partition?
Can you make it smaller (even if you can't "delete" it)?

Can you erase it to a Mac format?
If so, can you THEN delete it?

Perhaps the only real solution will be to erase the ENTIRE drive and start over.
I'll take a GUESS that to do this you might need a bootable USB flashdrive.

It MIGHT be possible by booting to Apple Silicon recovery.

I cannot resize the partition or delete it.

I have been considering the idea of completely wiping my laptop and starting over.
The macbook I have is Intel based and runs on macOS Monterey.

So I will create a bootable drive with Monterey on it, back up my files, and then completely wipe my laptop.

 

[Fishrrman]

"So I will create a bootable drive with Monterey on it, back up my files, and then completely wipe my laptop"

Either SuperDuper or CarbonCopyCloner will make the bootable cloned backup EASY.
Both are FREE to download and use for 30 days.

Create the cloned backup.
Boot from the cloned backup.
Open disk utility - BE SURE to go to the view menu and choose "show all devices".
(otherwise you can't see the physical internal SSD)

Erase to APFS, GUID partition format.

Then quit disk utility.
Now open SD (or CCC), and "RE-clone" the contents of the cloned backup BACK TO the internal drive.

Takes a little time (for cloning in each direction), but this is as easy as it gets.

 

[Ben J.]

Create the cloned backup.
Boot from the cloned backup.

I think the OP means to create a "usb-installer disk", then boot from Recovery, install fresh OS erasing the internal drive, then restore the user account from backup. At least that's what I would have done.