Getting personal with the betas (but not at the Apple Store)

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I had a notice to upgrade my MBP from 14.6.? to 14.7 (public beta) and it caused all kinds of ruckus.

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Nothing could circumvent this “personalization” error. I tried installing from Safe Mode, as a different user, from a bootable installer, and from the recovery partition. Apple Support chat told me to go to the Genius Bar. The Genius Bar sent me away because I had the Public Beta installed. “We don’t support betas.”

Has anyone seen this error before? How do I get around it? I think I just have to wait till Monday when Sequoia overwrites it or gives me the same error.

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I happened to search the macOS beta subreddit a day or two ago and that seems like a not uncommon issue.

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Searching yesterday I couldn’t find this, but did today: Failed to personalize software update, M1 Mac. The solution seems to require a firmware update, necessitating two Macs and plugging cables into particular ports between the two.

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I hope you have a similar setup and can get it to work.

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Found a fix. Turn off find my Mac. Simple!

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