Internal SSD not showing when download MacOS on MacBook M1 Air 2022

Unfortunately you made a mistake while erasing your M-series Mac. It is unfortunate that Apple has made these M-series Macs so mysterious & confusing without proper documentation of the changes between the Intel & M-series Macs.

When you erase or delete the hidden Container, then you will need to perform a DFU Firmware Restore (personal experience) in order to recreate the proper drive layout again. Unfortunately this process requires access to another Mac currently running macOS 26.x Tahoe or macOS 15.7+ Sequoia. I recommend you use the Apple Configurator 2 app currently at version 2.19 since the Finder may not provide as much feedback while trying to place the "broken" Mac into DFU Mode. Follow the instructions exactly....even then you may need to make multiple attempts to place it into DFU Mode.

How to revive or restore Mac firmware - Apple Support

You can try to create a new Partition with an APFS (top option) format, but I expect that will fail. From your picture of Disk Utility it appears you only have two partitions/Containers (normally hidden) and no APFS Container for the macOS system files. I recently tried erasing that third hidden Container or I may have deleted the "Volume Group" (contained "Macintosh HD" Volume Group with "Macintosh HD" system volume and a "Data" volume....possibly shown as "Macintosh HD - Data") instead of just deleting the "Volume Group". I wanted to see what would happen. I was unable to recreate it.

FYI, if you just want to reset the currently installed version of macOS to factory fresh conditions, then you can just use the "Erase All Content & Settings" which will have you seeing Setup Assistant again like when you first got your new Mac.

The other method for erasing the "disk" using Disk Utility is to erase the "Volume Group" which is on the line "Macintosh HD volumes".

Instructions for both methods are contained in the following Apple article which has two sections "Erase All Content & Settings" and the other section "If you cannot use Erase All Contents & Settings" resepectively:

Erase your Mac and reset it to factory settings - Apple Support

smurxi wrote:

I think I might have to bring my MacBook Air to an authorized service center, because I don’t currently have another Mac available to perform the DFU firmware restore process. I would like to ask if there’s any way to manually create a new APFS partition on my internal SSD. I tried to create one in Disk Utility, but it doesn’t let me, the only available items are containers “disk1” (524.3 MB) and “disk2” (5.37 GB), from the first image, and the “Add Partition” option is greyed out. 

 Is there any method to recreate an APFS container or volume directly on the main drive (disk0) without using DFU restore mode?

Unfortunately, no.

I believe macOS or the lower level system security prevents user modification of the physical internal SSD.

While typing this, I did think of one other thing you can try. Boot into Recovery Mode and launch the Terminal app from the Utilities menu on the menubar. Issue the following command to disable System Integrity Protection (aka SIP):

csrutil  disable

If there are no errors, then reboot back into Recovery Mode to see if you can have Disk Utility create a new Partition. If it allows you to create a new partition, then launch the Terminal app again and issue the following command to re-enable SIP:

csrutil  enable

If there are no errors, then reboot once more & launch Recovery Mode again. This time you should be able to reinstall macOS if everything went well. Otherwise, a DFU Firmware Restore is your only option.

smurxi wrote:

So basically I make a research using chatgpt and he found out a guy with the same problem link, and I solved my problem in the same way, using one command

$ diskutil addPartition /dev/disk0s1 APFS MacOS 0

Thanks for the update. I'm glad this worked for you. And good detective work!

I thought I had tried that myself, but I guess not (I didn't have a lot of time to think or tinker at the time). Sorry I didn't suggest it.