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I'm gifting a M1 MBA to my parents for Christmas and trying to keep things simple. In the past I've used internet recovery which would install the latest Mac OS which appears to be only available on Intel based Macs. This MBA had Ventura installed originally and I updated it to Sequoia just now. When I erased it to factory settings it reinstalled Ventura. So I then used disk utility from the recovery menu and wiped it manually which it then installed Sonoma.
It looks like I could create a bootable recovery USB but my only other current gen Mac is my work one where the app store app is completely blocked from launching so I can't download Sequoia directly. I guess I could use this MBA but seems like a lot of trouble.
My goal is to get this to Sequoia without going through the setup screen so its still a new unboxing experience for my parents and can immediately start using without me playing tech support over the holidays. Any ideas?
Thanks