{"id":19257,"date":"2017-10-17T15:22:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T19:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=19257"},"modified":"2021-06-30T16:33:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T20:33:54","slug":"erasing-touch-bar-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/17\/erasing-touch-bar-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Erasing Touch Bar Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT201065\">Apple<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2017\/10\/17\/how-to-erase-macbook-pro-touch-bar-before-selling\/\">Zac Hall<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT201065\"><p>You can clear any information stored by the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT207055\">Touch Bar<\/a> before you sell or give away your MacBook Pro. <\/p><p>First, start up from <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT201314\">macOS Recovery<\/a>: Hold down Command-R on your keyboard immediately after pressing the power button to turn on your Mac, or immediately after your Mac begins to restart.<\/p><p>When the macOS Utilities window appears, choose Utilities &gt; Terminal in the menu bar. Type this command in Terminal:<\/p><pre>xartutil --erase-all<\/pre><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Update (2017-10-19): <a href=\"https:\/\/512pixels.net\/2017\/10\/apple-remove-touch-bar-data-before-selling-macbook-pro\/\">Stephen Hackett<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/512pixels.net\/2017\/10\/apple-remove-touch-bar-data-before-selling-macbook-pro\/\">\n<p>When I first saw this, I assumed this has to do with the fingerprint information stored in the Secure Enclave. I rebooted into macOS Recovery, ran the command and rebooted again. After the restart, my Touch ID information had been wiped from the machine[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple (via Zac Hall): You can clear any information stored by the Touch Bar before you sell or give away your MacBook Pro. First, start up from macOS Recovery: Hold down Command-R on your keyboard immediately after pressing the power button to turn on your Mac, or immediately after your Mac begins to restart.When the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-06-01T01:29:21Z","apple_news_api_id":"050fb95b-0e33-4dd6-8440-dbaf0e2894ed","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-06-30T20:33:58Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ABQ-5Ww4zTdaEQNuvDiiU7Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,100,1529,2088,1679,1434],"class_list":["post-19257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macbookpro","tag-macos-10-13","tag-macos-recovery","tag-secure-enclave","tag-touch-bar"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19275,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19257\/revisions\/19275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}