Without doing this, your PC won’t recognize your device. One of the first things to remember is to put your device in USB debugging mode. Since they both are part of the Android SDK package, all you need to do is download the kit (which is over 500 MB) and set up path variables, or you can use below methods to install ADB and fastboot driver on Mac OS.

Run the SDK Manager sh ~/.Setting up ADB and Fastboot on Mac is as simple as in Windows.

Unzip the tools you downloaded unzip tools_r*-macosx.zip.

Make sure you save them to your Downloads folder.

Download the Mac SDK Tools from the Android developer site under “Get just the command line tools”.

Refresh your bash profile (or restart your terminal app) source ~/.bash_profile.

Add platform-tools to your path echo 'export PATH=$PATH:~/.android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools/' > ~/.bash_profile.

Mv platform-tools/ ~/.android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools

Move them somewhere you won’t accidentally delete them mkdir ~/.android-sdk-macosx.

Unzip the tools you downloaded unzip platform-tools-latest*.zip.

Go to your Downloads folder cd ~/Downloads/.

Navigate to and click on the SDK Platform-Tools for Mac link.

Delete your old installation (optional) rm -rf ~/.android-sdk-macosx/.

This is the easiest way to get a manual installation of ADB and Fastboot. Option 2 – Manually (just the platform tools)

Install adb brew cask install android-platform-tools.

Install homebrew ruby -e '$(curl -fsSL )'.This is the easiest way and will provide automatic updates. There are 3 options available for you to install ADB on macOS Option 1 – Using Homebrew

This has been a mystery to install ADB on MacOS as you can find many blogs and tutorials for installing adb on Windows specially on forums like xda but there is very little knowledge available for macOS. Installing ADB on macOS SeptemSeptemhamza

Install adb homebrew