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Restart in Recovery Mode
Restart your Mac then hold down the Command & R keys together until you're in the Recovery Mode menu
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Click on Utilities then select: Startup Security Utility
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The 3-choices popup appears: select (No security) (no confirmation button to press)
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Restart again in Recovery Mode (Command+R)
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Open Utilities → Terminal and type
csrutil disable
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Restart in Recovery Mode again and continue with Main Procedure
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Enter Disk Utility, and mount the
Macintosh HD
volume (or whatever your main volume is named). (It might already be mounted.) -
Open Utilities → Terminal and type
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/luminositystudio/mactuts/main/disable_DEP.sh -O
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Then
chmod 775 disable_DEP.sh
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Then
./disable_DEP.sh
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Reboot
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After a normal boot, you can verify the DEP status in Terminal.
profiles status -type enrollment
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Disable DEP Status successful.
Enrolled via DEP: No MDM enrollment: No
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After each upgrade to the latest BigSur and Monterey, apply this method again to disable DEP.
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Method has been tested and worked on following macOS BigSur and Monterey version:
- 12.1 (Monterey)
- 12.0.1 (Monterey)
- 11.5.2 (BigSur)
- 11.3.1
- 11.3
- 11.2.3
- 11.2.2
- 11.2.1
- 11.2
- 11.1
- 11.0.1
Mine is macOS 11.2.3, and I don't have Macintosh HD or Macintosh.