macOS High Sierra: Why you can’t format an internal SSD with HFS+ format

I’ve written quite a bit about the not-quite-so-new Apple File System (APFS) format that Apple adopted for both iOS and—with macOS 10.13 High Sierra—for SSDs that are a Mac's boot volume. While questions have largely tapered off in recent weeks after a spate of issues with Time Machine, APFS, and external drives, people are clearly still wrestling with some of the details.

mac911 apfs disk utility from reader IDG

A Macworld reader can’t get the HFS+ option to appear, but that’s by design.

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