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downgrade from Big Sur to Sierra or High Sierra.

I have been trying to downgrade from Big Sur to Sierra.I have 2015 early MacBook Air.Big Sur makes my comp slow that s why I am not pleased with its performance.I downloaded Sierra but couldn't start.I tried Command Alt Option R nd started recovery menu but it got stuck while setting up Sierra.I want to delete all in comp and want to set up Sierra.

Posted on Feb 7, 2022 4:41 AM

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Posted on Feb 7, 2022 6:31 PM

Hi,

If you have TimeMachine back up, you can downgrade quite easily, though try to start up in Recovery mode(Shift+Option+Command +r) then reinstall macOS which is installed macOS that came with your Mac.

How to reinstall macOS - Apple Support


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downgrade from Big Sur to Sierra or High Sierra.

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