How to format flash drive to FAT32 in macOS Big Sur?

Question

When trying to format a flash drive to FAAT32 by using macOS, Bug Sur, Disk Utility only shows the APFS.

Answer 1

Using the terminal:

diskutil list

you will see something like this:

/dev/disk0
   #:      TYPE NAME                SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme    *500.3 GB  disk0
   1:      EFI EFI                  209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:      Apple_CoreStorage        499.4 GB   disk0s2
   3:      Apple_Boot Recovery HD   650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:      TYPE NAME                SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      Apple_HFS Macintosh HD   *499.0 GB  disk1
                    Logical Volume on disk0s2
                    0########-####-####-####-###########
                    Unencrypted
/dev/disk2
   #:      TYPE NAME                SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      FDisk_partition_scheme   *32.0 GB    disk2
   1:               DOS_FAT_32 NO NAME

choose the right drive:

sudo diskutil eraseDisk FAT32 SDCARD MBRFormat /dev/disk2

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Answer 2

To solve this issue, you have to Delete the volumes. To do that, right-click on the Disk in the sidebar. Right click the disk

Delete the APFS volume and after that you can format the disk to FAT32.

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