Cannot merge free space to MacOs disk

I recently delete window on my macbook, I wanna merge the free space into my mac disk but when I go to partition, I cannot find the free space in the pie and cannot merge it in the terminal either, is there anything I can do?



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MacBook Pro (2017 – 2020)

Posted on Aug 15, 2025 08:34 PM

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Aug 16, 2025 05:17 PM in response to Desholton

It is actually worse than @VikingOSX realizes since the "free space" is ahead of the APFS Container. I have no idea how this occurred.


The only way to fix your issue is by completely erasing the physical 2TB Apple SSD since the "free space" portion is show located in front of your APFS Container. It is only possible to merge partitions into the partition ahead of it. In this case you would be merging the APFS Container into the "free space" resulting in all free space....so you may as well just erase the whole physical SSD so that the partition table can be rebuilt into the proper form.


To erase the whole physical SSD (Intel Macs only), you need to click "View" within Disk Utility and select "Show All Devices" before the physical drive appears on the left pane of Disk Utility. Select the physical drive "Apple SSD A2048N Media" and erase it as GUID partition and APFS (top option). Then quit Disk Utility & select "Reinstall macOS". After macOS is installed, then you can restore your data from a backup.


If the "free space" had been located after the APFS Container, then I could have provide instructions involving the command line to attempt to merge the "free space" portion into the APFS Container if Bootcamp Assistant was unable to do so, but this is not an option here unfortunately.



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