Bypass remote management on Macbook pro after clean install Catalina - solved
I go through this everytime I do a clean install on my macbook. And I forget everytime. I just spent 90 mins reading the posts on this that got me nowhere, until I remembered. People keep mentioning getting to the internet setup screen and just saying that you don't have an internet connection. That has never worked.What I realize is that eventhough I have done a format of the drive my macbook is still remembering my wifi network and password. If I turn off wifi in the recovery mode it comes back on in the setup. That is what activates the Remote Management.
The fix is: you have to turn off your wifi from your modem so there is no way the laptop can connect to the old network, or any previously saved network. Turn off the modem if you have to. That works like a charm. Then don't connect to any wifi during the setup and you are fine.This was on a 2012 Macbook pro after I did a clean install of Catalina.
However, I have never been able to get rid of the "device enrollment" notification nag that pops up at least once a day in the upper right hand corner. I tried one of the fixes out there, but it didn't work for me. I just click it to close it. I am just used to it.