Install Windows 10 on your Mac with Boot Camp Assistant

With Boot Camp, yous tin can install Microsoft Windows x on your Mac, so switch between macOS and Windows when restarting your Mac.

What you need to install Windows 10 on Mac

  • MacBook introduced in 2015 or later
  • MacBook Air introduced in 2012 or afterward
  • MacBook Pro introduced in 2012 or later
  • Mac mini introduced in 2012 or later
  • iMac introduced in 2012 or later1
  • iMac Pro (all models)
  • Mac Pro introduced in 2013 or later

The latest macOS updates, which can include updates to Boot Camp Assistant. Yous will use Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows 10.

64GB or more free storage infinite on your Mac startup disk:

  • Your Mac tin take equally little as 64GB of free storage infinite, but at least 128GB of complimentary storage infinite provides the best experience. Automated Windows updates require that much infinite or more than.
  • If you have an iMac Pro or Mac Pro with 128GB of memory (RAM) or more, your startup disk needs at least every bit much gratis storage space as your Mac has memory.2

An external USB flash drive with a storage capacity of 16GB or more than, unless you're using a Mac that doesn't need a flash drive to install Windows.

A 64-bit version of Windows 10 Abode or Windows ten Pro on a disk epitome (ISO) or other installation media. If installing Windows on your Mac for the offset time, this must be a total version of Windows, not an upgrade.

  • If your copy of Windows came on a USB flash bulldoze, or you take a Windows product key and no installation disc, download a Windows 10 deejay image from Microsoft.
  • If your copy of Windows came on a DVD, yous might need to create a disk prototype of that DVD.

Boot Camp Assistant app icon

How to install Windows ten on Mac

To install Windows, use Kick Army camp Banana, which is included with your Mac.

1. Cheque your Secure Boot setting

Learn how to check your Secure Boot setting. The default Secure Boot setting is Full Security. If you changed it to No Security, change information technology back to Full Security before installing Windows. After installing Windows, you lot can utilise any Secure Boot setting without affecting your ability to start upward from Windows.

2. Use Boot Camp Assistant to create a Windows partition

Open Kicking Army camp Assistant, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder. Follow the onscreen instructions.

  • If y'all're asked to insert a USB drive, plug your USB flash drive into your Mac. Boot Camp Assistant volition use it to create a bootable USB drive for Windows installation.
  • When Boot Camp Assistant asks you to set the size of the Windows partition, think the minimum storage-infinite requirements in the previous section. Set a division size that meets your needs, because you lot can't change its size later.

3. Format the Windows (BOOTCAMP) partition

When Boot Camp Assistant finishes, your Mac restarts to the Windows installer. If the installer asks where to install Windows, select the BOOTCAMP division and click Format. In most cases, the installer selects and formats the BOOTCAMP segmentation automatically.

four. Install Windows

Unplug any external devices that aren't necessary during installation. So click Side by side and follow the onscreen instructions to begin installing Windows.

5. Use the Boot Campsite installer in Windows

After Windows installation completes, your Mac starts upwards in Windows and opens a "Welcome to the Boot Camp installer" window. Follow the onscreen instructions to install Kick Army camp and Windows support software (drivers). You volition be asked to restart when done.

  • If the Boot Army camp installer never opens, open the Kick Military camp installer manually and utilize information technology to complete Boot Military camp installation.
  • If you lot accept an external display connected to a Thunderbolt 3 port on your Mac, the display will be blank (blackness, grey, or blue) for up to 2 minutes during installation.

How to switch between Windows and macOS

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If yous have 1 of these Intel-based Mac models using Bone X El Capitan or subsequently, you don't need a USB flash drive to install Windows:

  • MacBook introduced in 2015 or later
  • MacBook Air introduced in 2017 or later3
  • MacBook Pro introduced in 2015 or later3
  • iMac introduced in 2015 or afterwards
  • iMac Pro (all models)
  • Mac Pro introduced in late 2013 or later

ane. If you lot're using an iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014) or iMac (27-inch, Late 2013) or iMac (27-inch, Belatedly 2012) with a 3TB hard drive and macOS Mojave or afterwards, learn about an alarm you lot might run into during installation.

2. For example, if your Mac has 128GB of memory, its startup disk must have at least 128GB of storage space bachelor for Windows. To see how much retention your Mac has, cull Apple bill of fare  > About This Mac. To see how much storage space is available, click the Storage tab in the same window.

iii. These Mac models were offered with 128GB hard drives equally an option. Apple tree recommends 256GB or larger hard drives and then that y'all tin can create a Kicking Camp partitioning of at least 128GB.

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