How to format an SD card on Mac

We teach you step by step how to erase and delete all the contents of an SD card from macOS.

If you are a photographer, or user of memory cards, surely you need format your SD card too often. If you have a Mac, you should know that there is a system app capable of doing it for you, it is even capable of changing the format of the card. The name of this app is Disk Utility, and it is perfect for erasing an SD card or hard drive.

Erasing an SD card is a routine process for those who work with this type of units and thanks to macOS you can make this really easy without having to install third-party applications.

How to format a memory card in macOS

The process of erasing an SD memory card, or a hard drive, from a Mac it’s very simple and we won’t have to do much since macOS takes care of everything. The process is very easy, and you just have to follow these steps correctly:

  1. Insert the SD card, or microSD with an adapter, into the card reader.
  2. Wait for it to mount on your Mac, it will appear on the desktop, and remember the name of the card.
  3. Open Disk Utility. It’s inside the Applications folder in a subfolder called Utilities, although you can also search for it by name.
  4. In the Disk Utility sidebar, find your memory card and select the volume, you’ll find it just below the manufacturer’s name, and it will have a name that matches the name on the card.
  5. Once the correct volume is selected, click Delete above.
  6. Enter a name for the memory card.
  7. Select the format of the memory card. Generally, MS-DOS (FAT) is used for memory cards with capacities of 32 GB or less, and ExFAT for 64 GB or more. We recommend the latter as it is compatible with both Mac and Windows.
  8. Click Delete
  9. Once the process is complete, click Done.
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It is true that deleting an SD card can be done in different ways, however by doing it from Disk Utility in macOS we make sure that the card it is deleted without leaving any type of file inside it, and also does it in the format that we like the most. The deletion is done in just a few seconds and we will have our SD card completely clean and ready to use.

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