Facing limitations of APFS?
- Incompatibility with Time Machine for backups
- Incompatibility with FileVault 2 for drive encryption
- Inability to format Fusion drives, and more
APFS to HFS+ Converter by Paragon Software easily reverts to the old good HFS+ for your specific scenarios. Create recovery media to boot up your Mac and then convert the system volume.
Fast and lossless conversion of APFS volumes into HFS+ volumes
Support for APFS and HFS+ volumes on internal and external disks
Recovery media – a special bootable drive – for safe startup and further system volume conversion
Logging events throughout the conversion process
Features
- Convert APFS volumes to HFS+ volumes.
- Create a recovery media in case of system disk conversion.
- Wizard helps to select the desired volume for conversion, gives you the option to back it up, then quickly performs the conversion.
- Support of APFS and HFS+ volumes on internal and external disks.
System requirements
- MacOS 10.12+
- Sufficient internal or external disk space for conversion output, based on volume size