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<h1 id="etcher" class="step">Install <em>balenaEtcher</em></h1>
<div class="step-image usb">[[!img inc/infography/install-etcher.png link="no" alt=""]]</div>
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<p class="upgrade">In the following steps, you will install an intermediary Tails using the Tails USB
image that you downloaded earlier.</p>
<p><a href="https://etcher.balena.io/"><i>balenaEtcher</i></a> is the Free Software tool that we recommend to install Tails from macOS.</p>
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<p>We [[stopped recommending|news/rufus]] <i>balenaEtcher</i> to install Tails
from Windows in 2025 because <i>balenaEtcher</i> shares [[!tails_ticket 16381
desc="sensitive information"]] to the Balena company that allows identifying
who is installing Tails.</p>
<p>We have not updated our installation instructions for macOS yet.</p>
<p>If you are worried about being identified as a Tails user, you can instead:</p>
<ul>
<li>[[!toggle id="dd" text="Install Tails using `dd` on the command line"]].</li>
<li>Install Tails using <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/"><i>Raspberry Pi Imager</i></a>.</li>
</ul>
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Make sure that your USB stick is unplugged.
Open the **Terminal** utility from **Applications&nbsp;▸ Utilities**.
Execute the following command.
<p class="command">diskutil list</p>
It returns a list of the storage devices on the system. For example:
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS MacDrive 250.0 GB disk0s2
3: EFI 134.1 GB disk0s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 115.5 GB disk0s4
Plug your USB stick into the computer.
Execute again the same command.
Your USB stick appears as a new device in the list. Check
that its size corresponds to the size of your USB stick.
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *8.0 GB disk1
1: Apple_HFS Untitled 1 8.0 GB disk1s1
Take note of the device name of your USB stick.
In this example, the USB stick is 8.0 GB and its device name is <span class="command-placeholder">/dev/disk1</span>.
Yours might be different.
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