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Click Erase and now you can get to whatever you want for a format. So all you need to do is switch to Show All Devices. Now you can actually change it to whatever you want. Or probably what you want to do is select the Device and the result might be the same. But if you move up the chain you see that you can change the container to be something else. If you go into Erase it you can only erase it as an APFS. Now when you have have the Volume selected, the volume is APFS. Now with APFS you've got Device, Container, and then Volumes under that. So before we had, say, a physical device for the drive and then you had volumes. Now you can see that I'm actually selecting the Thumb Drive Volume inside of the one container for this actual physical device. One where it shows only the volumes and another that Shows All Devices. You see in Mac OS Mojave disk utility has two view modes. But, in fact, it's a completely different problem and a very simple one to solve. If I click Erase here you see that the only format options I get are APFS. But if you need to reformat it, say as the older Mac format or maybe a cross platform format with Windows, it seems like once you format something like this thumb drive at APFS you can't reformat it as anything else. How do you reformat a drive that is formatted APFS? APFS is the current way to format Mac drives. Google as in 'Apple Mac' or even open the Help menu in Disk Utility and there are popular topics and tips for most things. Video Transcript: Here's a question that's been asked a lot recently all over the internet. Anytime it takes more than 2 minutes for a non-zero format, there is a problem and 3-5 hrs at the outside for a drive to do a full zero is beyond the pale. Check out How To Reformat An APFS Drive As Something Else at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.