How to Downgrade macOS Catalina to MacOS Mojave step by step 

The biggest regret I made was updating it to Catalina smh

Once I heard that accent I knew this was going to work

Big life lesson, dont "upgrade to Catalina".

From a fellow injun, I thank you brother. This really helped me out. Catalina is trash in every conceivable way, I wish I’d read some reviews before I updated the OS...won’t make that mistake again. It’s good to be back to Mojave.

I’ve spent the entire weekend trying to downgrade. Other videos are long and done work. You saved me, many thankyou-s

Just adding my voice to the long list of people in the comments to say thank you for this video. It worked perfectly and I'm now enjoying Mojave once again on my MacBook. Thanks, Jinu!

I was talking to someone on Apple's live chat for over 2 hours last night and they couldn't help me. You have explained it in 6 minutes. Thank you!!!

It worked for me! Thank you❗️❗️.....so many other useless and long video that never worked . This was simple, to the point and successful.

Spent so much time on this downgrade as I never did any full on back up. Was praying every step of the way. You are a STAR! Thank you for saving me!! Honestly I almost got a heart attack when I found out the amount of apps I couldn’t use with Catalina. One again, big thank you. Now just hope the back up goes according to a plan as well 😂

This worked!!!! thank you so much! I thought I was stuck on terminal copying to USB, but it just take a while. Now I am running on Mojave and installing games :)

I managed to do this last night from watching this video. Thank you so much! I recently upgraded to Catalina but Adobe Photoshop didn’t work and I never knew that would happen. Now it’s works fine with Mojave. Really clear instructions, thank you!

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I apologize in advance for my English. I would like to thank you for such an easy and clear tutorial, because in the Russian community it is not easy to explain how to return to the old version. Thank you so much ❤it's amazing

So thankful for this step-by-step tutorial! This worked perfectly for me, thank goodness I am able to downgrade successfully!!

What a genius!!! Thank you so much, Jinu!!! I have a Macbook mid-2012, factory reset it and installed the Catalina. I thought it will not work. But here it is!!! Big big thanks to you!

Very helpful video. I followed your steps and it worked like a charm. Sometimes you have cut the video when the system takes longer so if you’re doing this at home, just wait be patient and let the system finish the job. For example, in the terminal mode or while deleting the disk etc

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Hello Jinu! I just wanted to say THANK YOU so much! I have been without Adobe and Office for months! I followed all your instructions. I backed up my computer, downloaded Mojave on a USB and erased the HD. With your easy instruction I was able to put all the pieces back together without missing one file!! Everything works again! Thank you for taking your valuable time to make this video!

Thank you Jinu! This was (to me) a complicated process, but your step by step, clear and explicit instructions allowed me to succeed. I'm so grateful!!

It's 2020 and the problem hasn't yet been solved - clearly it's on purpose so customers buy their newer products. But used or reconditioned 2015 Macbooks are still very sought after

Thanks Jinu...You made my day...the video was so simple to follow and I was successful in downgrading MacOS Catalina to MacOS Mojave...God Bless you...

Thank you for the video tech. It works for me, I have to do it step by step, slowly as you dictated the instruction using another computer. Again thank you, keep up the good work, we need good technician like you.

When restarting the first time ( after 4:40 ) he said "cmd + R" and the second time you restart 5:50 he said "alt" Hhhhhhh I had to check online the commands required because I'm a computer noob and I was hesitant to make potentially wrong moves... Dude knows his shit - IT WORKS - although I had to try 5 times and wait overnight for download etc in the Terminal window. HE DID A SECOND VIDEO for all the people LIKE ME who had messages like "tool old" or stuck at 0% ( that's when I had to wait overnight )

amazing this worked for me perfectly, and thanks for uploading the image on google drive too!!! please make great videos like this. love your accent 👍🏼

I rarely comment on videos, but I wanted to say thank you so much sir for putting the effort to create these tutorials. God bless you sir.

Thank you, especially the terminal stuff. Worked like a charm.

YOU ARE THE GREATEST MAN ALIVE!!! Thankyou so much for your video.....I have been trying for days and OOOONCE!!! DONE

I am absolutely livid about Catalina. I mainly use Logic Pro X on my MacBook Air, and from updating to Catalina all but three days ago, on top of what I believe are issues with the battery pack screwing up my touch pad, everything load too slow now and now some previously downloaded 32 bit sounds and plugins won’t work. And it had to happen the last 2 weeks of the semester. Honestly Apple, between your computers getting slower with each “update”, and the hardware along with the battery pack issues, I don’t care what the excuse is. Get your sh*t together.

Thank you soooo much!! Its works. Catalina is the past finally 👍😄

Thank you so much, successfully downgraded from Catalina to Mojave

Thanks, I highly recommend Jinu. He has a very simple statergy and works all the time. You earned a subscriber for a lifetime

BRO THANK YOU SO MUCH YOUR A LIFE SAVIOR!!!! I wanted to revert so I could play left 4 dead 2 and I couldn’t do it before but now I can u jus gained a sub!!!! 🔥

1 Year too late but still works!!! Thanks man 👌🏻👌🏻

Thank you so much! It worked for me :)

This worked, thank you very much for your video! 😁

Excellent works 100%. Thank you so much

Thank you sir! You are hero for posting this :)!

As soon as I hear the Indian accent I know its going to be a pleasant experience with clear instructions ! Thank you!!

In the uk you can't find Mojave, to change this in the search bar you'll see en-gb somewhere. changed the gb to -us and it'll work.

Thank you Jinu. It was painless and helpful.

WARNING: he neglect to mention the step where you make sure you allow booting from external media. This will result in an error when trying to reboot giving you no options when it comes to the part where you choose Install macOS Mojave. This results in being forced to use the USB drive as your main hard drive and being unable to boot the computer at all without that USB drive connected. To get past this, restarting the computer with no USB connected and holding Command+R until the globe appears. I had to then re-format the internal hard drive again and then choose Reinstall macOS from the utilities menu again, in my case it was osX Mavericks. From there it was an upgrade to Mojave from the link provided in the video. Hopefully the will save you the 7 hours it cost me.

Your awesome man, it worked. Thank you so much

If u hear this accent you know your set😂

This worked!!!! And so easy to do. Thanks dude!!

Brilliant tutorial! From this I have managed to successfully downgrade back to Mojave, a couple of added hints once you have installed Mojave onto the Mac it brings you back to the disk start up screen, you need to just carry on with the install, Catalina does mess up the storage on your Mac and installed 88gb of unusable system storage this is recified by a erase of the hard disk(just make sure you have a back up/time machine! Thanks again for the Tutorial!

The best video for downgrading from Catalina to Mojave

When I upgraded to Catlina, my computer Ram didn’t suppose my Mac (2012) .

Also make sure that you enable booting through USB beforehand shown on the link:www.imore.com/how-downgrade-macos. A lot of the comments are stating that they get an error displaying "the version of macOs is too old" that is because you are trying to open the OS in Catalina, you need to follow Jinu's great steps to format your USB and then boot the OS through that.

Spot on, sir. Very helpful.

Thank you!! Worked.

This worked! Thank you Jinu'sTech-Videos. However, once I downgraded Safari was not working with Mojave because it was the Safari from Catalina that was transferred, thus, it was too 'upgraded' for Mojave. The solution to this is a bit tedious but worth it. You must reinstall Mojave, make sure you have everything saved in your external hard drive, then Safari will be up and running. Take care.

I made the biggest mistake downloading Catalina and came across this video and it was so easy to do😁thank you so much!!!

Thanks! It worked for me perfectly

Thank you so much, it worked for me

Thanks for your help! You describe things so well

Thank you so much for helping me with this I hate Catalina Because It wouldn’t let me play left for dead two anymore

It works! Thank you 🙏🏼

Hey... I upgraded to Catalina and everything is INSANELY slow. Like a snail could go around the world and google chrome wouldn't even be up yet. Someone pls help.

Oh you wonderful wonderful man! This worked! But please note your programs will need to be re installed!

Me ajudou bastante no meu Mac o mojave é bem mais estável q o Catalina. Você recomenda o High Sierra para Mac de 2015? Utilizei muito pouco o High Sierra não me lembro se ele é melhor q o MOjave.

Explained this perfect and clear thank you!

Thanks bro! Will you have the Catalina installer from Google Drive? Unfortunately the App Store no longer allows you to download it.

It worked, thanks!

Have you ever noticed the increased capacity on "two not mounted"and "VM" volumes after each and every booting?

Thank you so so much, this video helped me alot!

Thank you,nice video !

Thanks a lot sir you saved the day 👊🏻

I’m so scared 😱 that I’m going to lose everything I just erased my hard drive I’ll update Edit: Didn’t work said something like Mojave damaged 😑. Currently restoring my computer back hopefully it is the same as before I erased the hard drive.

this was so helpful thank youuu

This man is *The Goat*

I fixed it on my own (your video doesn’t talk about changing the security to allow you to use an external hard disk) and then when I’m back at disk utility it does not allow me to select (reinstall Mohave) because it says a newer version is already on my Mac HD and I erased everything. Your instructions aren’t faulty.

Thank You! God Bless!

thank you i love u

Very nice 🙏 thanks so much

But what if my mac says this version is too old to be downloaded?

OMG you didn’t tell us about allowing for external drive boot ups... just spend hours trying to recover my Mac. Got it all to work in the end.

hello! Just wanted to ask-- so you say that the usb drive should be empty around 4:00, but aren't we suppose to back up everything in it? or is it what typing in the hard drive in the admin is suppose to do?

How long is it supposed to take to copy the install over to the USB Drive. Mine has taken well over what it did in this video? Unless you had skipped past?

This is probably the single best video to come out of the Catalina update. Lol

Thank you now I can actually play TF2

THANK YOUMSO MUCH YOU ARE THE BEST EVRYONE SAID TOMGO THIRD PARTY SSOFTWARE AND YOU DID IT PERFECTLY OMG THANK YOU😍😍😍

thank you brother! namaste!

U r the best

Crazy for your accent😊👏👏👏

what should I do if I dont have a usb drive? I dont have anything really important other than some screen recordings of some gameplay.

Hi! I have macbook pro 2018 Any idea why I can’t download Mojave OS after downloading it. It says OS not found :(

I downgraded to Mojave successfully, but a bunch of utilities like Terminal and About This Mac either no longer exist or no longer work. Help please?

Dude thank you!

Thank you I appreciate your help

Thanks it’s works

Thank you! 🙏

Perfect 💪🏽

Please help.. when I try to open the Install MacOS app it says “this version of MacOS is too old to be installed on this Mac” And after following all the steps, while restarting the macbook, the Install Mac OS doesn’t show up when I press the option key with the usb drive inserted . Someone please tell me what to do.. thanks

Not working. Every time I try to download Mojave from the app store, it says "This copy of the “Install macOS” application is too old to be opened on this version of macOS."

My macbook pro is running very slow after catalina 10.15.5 it went super slow. Takes 3-4 minutes to boot up and very slow to open any application. Dont know if its a hardware issue or software.

Question is will it work if you have never had Mojave before I just got a new Mac so there has never been any other OS other than Catalina, I don’t want to do this and mess up my computer but I definitely don’t like Catalina

I did this, my macbook is now completely damaged. It stays on the apple symbol, the loading bar will load for 75% and my macbook just shuts down and starts the whole process all over again. I regret doing this more than updating to catalina😔

hi, is the back up just security or all the aps, games, programs will be also gone and i will have to be looking downloading all, pretty much everything lost just mojave os applications will stay? thanks

After you have created the media and need to restart the computer at what stage do you remove the USB stick?

Thank you!