Install Windows 10 on your Mac with Boot Camp Assistant

With Boot Camp, you can install Microsoft Windows 10 on your Mac, then switch between macOS and Windows when restarting your Mac.

What you demand 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 afterwards
  • Mac mini introduced in 2012 or after
  • iMac introduced in 2012 or later1
  • iMac Pro (all models)
  • Mac Pro introduced in 2013 or later on

The latest macOS updates, which tin include updates to Boot Army camp Assistant. You will use Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows 10.

64GB or more gratis storage space on your Mac startup disk:

  • Your Mac can have as little as 64GB of free storage space, only at least 128GB of free storage space provides the all-time experience. Automatic Windows updates crave that much space or more.
  • If you lot take an iMac Pro or Mac Pro with 128GB of retentivity (RAM) or more, your startup disk needs at least every bit much gratis storage infinite as your Mac has memory.2

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

A 64-flake version of Windows 10 Home or Windows 10 Pro on a deejay paradigm (ISO) or other installation media. If installing Windows on your Mac for the first time, this must exist a full version of Windows, non an upgrade.

  • If your copy of Windows came on a USB wink drive, or yous accept a Windows production key and no installation disc, download a Windows ten disk image from Microsoft.
  • If your re-create of Windows came on a DVD, you might need to create a disk image of that DVD.

Boot Camp Assistant app icon

How to install Windows 10 on Mac

To install Windows, use Boot Camp Assistant, which is included with your Mac.

1. Check your Secure Kicking setting

Larn 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 dorsum to Full Security before installing Windows. After installing Windows, you tin use whatever Secure Boot setting without affecting your power to start upward from Windows.

2. Apply Kick Camp Assistant to create a Windows partition

Open Boot Camp Assistant, which is in the Utilities binder of your Applications folder. Follow the onscreen instructions.

  • If y'all're asked to insert a USB drive, plug your USB wink drive into your Mac. Boot Army camp Assistant will use it to create a bootable USB drive for Windows installation.
  • When Boot Military camp Assistant asks you to set the size of the Windows partition, recall the minimum storage-space requirements in the previous department. Set a partition size that meets your needs, because yous tin't alter its size afterwards.

3. Format the Windows (BOOTCAMP) sectionalization

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

four. Install Windows

Unplug whatever external devices that aren't necessary during installation. So click Adjacent and follow the onscreen instructions to brainstorm installing Windows.

five. Employ the Boot Army camp installer in Windows

After Windows installation completes, your Mac starts up in Windows and opens a "Welcome to the Boot Camp installer" window. Follow the onscreen instructions to install Boot Camp and Windows support software (drivers). You volition exist asked to restart when washed.

  • If the Boot Camp installer never opens, open the Boot Camp installer manually and employ it to complete Kicking Military camp installation.
  • If you have an external display connected to a Thunderbolt 3 port on your Mac, the brandish will exist blank (blackness, gray, or blue) for upward to 2 minutes during installation.

How to switch between Windows and macOS

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If you have one of these Intel-based Mac models using OS X El Capitan or later, you don't demand a USB flash drive to install Windows:

  • MacBook introduced in 2015 or subsequently
  • MacBook Air introduced in 2017 or later on3
  • MacBook Pro introduced in 2015 or lateriii
  • iMac introduced in 2015 or later
  • iMac Pro (all models)
  • Mac Pro introduced in late 2013 or later

ane. If you're using an iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Belatedly 2014) or iMac (27-inch, Late 2013) or iMac (27-inch, Late 2012) with a 3TB hard bulldoze and macOS Mojave or after, learn about an warning yous might see during installation.

ii. For example, if your Mac has 128GB of retentivity, its startup deejay must have at least 128GB of storage space bachelor for Windows. To encounter how much retentiveness your Mac has, choose Apple menu  > About This Mac. To come across how much storage space is bachelor, click the Storage tab in the same window.

3. These Mac models were offered with 128GB hard drives as an option. Apple recommends 256GB or larger hard drives so that you tin can create a Kick Campsite sectionalization of at least 128GB.

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