Whatever your reasons, here is how to clean install macOS High Sierra. Or maybe you just want that fresh out of the box Mac experience again. Whether it’s because your Mac has accumulated so many junk files that it’s performance is badly affected or because you’re passing your Mac onto someone else and want to make sure all your data is removed. That’s why, sometimes, it makes more sense to run a clean install. Your data remains but your software and file junk remains as well. It’s quick, easy and means we can be back up and running in no time, with all your apps and data ready to use. Normally when you install a new version of macOS, you just install it over the previous version. Get Setapp, a toolkit with fixes for all Mac problems