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Select your Startup Disk and click Erase.When the macOS Utilities screen appears, select Disk Utility.On the next screen, select Options to launch Recovery mode. On M1-based Macs, keep holding the Power button on startup till you see the message Loading Startup Options. For Intel Macs, this can be done by holding Cmd + R on startup.

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Shut down the Mac that you want to downgrade and plug in the newly created external drive.

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Related: How to Install macOS From USB Using the InstallerДЇinally, to run the installer you've created and downgrade macOS: This will create the installer (titled Untitled), which you can use as a bootable disk. If your drive is already formatted, you can skip this section. Preparing the External DriveД«efore you can create the installer, you need to format the drive. The next time you upgrade, you might want to make a backup of the previous version's installer, just in case.ДЇor this process, you'll need a 16GB or larger USB flash drive or external hard drive.

Moving forward, it's worth remembering that older macOS versions are now harder to download. This is helpful for users trying to downgrade from macOS Monterey to macOS Big Sur or older on M1 Macs, as the default Recovery mode only installs the latest version of macOS. Once you have the specific macOS installer downloaded on your Mac, you can use it to create a bootable disk, from which you can reinstall macOS.

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The installer will download through the System Preferences' Software Update section and should be available in your Applications folder once done. With the updated Mac App Store, this is no longer possible however, they can still be downloaded through Apple's Support website. Downgrade Using an Older macOS InstallerД«efore the release of macOS Mojave, it was possible to download older versions of macOS directly through the App Store.

Follow the prompts to complete the reinstallation, then restore your files from the backup you created.

You'll be able to see which version of macOS was used to create that backup.

On the following screen, select the backup you want to restore from.

In this case, that's the backup drive you plugged in earlier.

On the next screen, click Continue again.

When the macOS Utilities screen appears, select Restore From Time Machine Backup and click Continue.

To do this on an Intel Mac, hold Cmd + R to enter macOS Recovery.

Plug your Time Machine disk into your Mac and power it down or restart it.

To downgrade using a prior Time Machine backup: This, of course, assumes that you created the backup on an older version of macOS. Using a Time Machine backup is another simple way to install an older version of macOS.

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