<p class="upgrade">In the following steps, you will install an intermediary Tails using the Tails USB image that you downloaded earlier.</p>
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<p><a href="https://etcher.balena.io/"><i>balenaEtcher</i></a> is the Free Software tool that we recommend to install Tails on USB sticksfrom macOS.</p>
<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>
<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>