Has anyone had any luck removing Big Sur beta from Mac mini M1? I have gone through these forums and did the reinstall as outlined. In all cases the recovery boots and asks me to reinstall the beta, even after I do the "erase Mac" step. Apple support says that I will get the opportunity to overwrite the beta when it goes live. Makes no sense as beta is issued as trial software.
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Reinstall M1 Mac mini to remove BS beta
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Have you withdrawn from the Beta program?
In System Preferences -> Software update
in the left pane is there an option to go back to default settings? Try that (though some people have had difficulties with it).
In System Preferences -> Software update
in the left pane is there an option to go back to default settings? Try that (though some people have had difficulties with it).
Just wait for the final release and then opt out of the beta program. Dunno what you mean with "trial software". What Apple told you is correct.
If for whatever reason you want to go back to stable immediately, restore the machine using Apple Configurator. This is the only way to downgrade a M1 Mac.
If for whatever reason you want to go back to stable immediately, restore the machine using Apple Configurator. This is the only way to downgrade a M1 Mac.
Well since I only have 1 Mac, can't use configurator. And I did the unenroll from beta program but that didn't help. Guess I will have wait.
GM is going to be either next week, or the week after, so we're talking maximum 10 days. unless it's stopping you working, do as the above suggests, wait till the GM then remove the profile.
Unenrolling doesn't install a stable macOS release. All it does is stop the system from getting beta updates. You will get the stable once released.
Yes I did remove Big Sur beta, first opt out of the beta from system settings, this way you won’t get more beta updates but your system will stay at beta. After that search for “big sur” in apple App Store and install that, voila you will get back to standard releases.
I did that (it worked) but I had trouble reconnecting to iCloud so again tried a "clean" reinstall to no avail.
Ok, well I will just live with it as I don't have another Mac and I don't want to take it to the Apple Store. Apple needs to work on this if they expect users to test the betas.
I second just deleting the profile, and install it from the apple store without doing anything special.
That worked for me, and iCloud was working correctly.
I would try it again and troubleshoot iCloud at that point.
That worked for me, and iCloud was working correctly.
I would try it again and troubleshoot iCloud at that point.
I have found 11.3b4 to be the most stable version of them all. Have not had an overnight crash since the install a few days ago.