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V-268497CAT II — Medium severitySV-268497r1034431_rule

The macOS system must disable Privacy Setup services during Setup Assistant.

Rule version APPL-15-002036 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

The prompt for Privacy Setup services during Setup Assistant must be disabled.

Organizations must apply organizationwide configuration settings. The macOS Privacy Setup services prompt guides new users through enabling their own specific privacy settings. This is not essential and, therefore, must be disabled to prevent the risk of individuals electing privacy settings with the potential to override organizationwide settings.

Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable Privacy Setup services during Setup Assistant with the following command:

/usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript << EOS $.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.SetupAssistant.managed')\ .objectForKey('SkipPrivacySetup').js EOS

If the result is not "true", this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the macOS system to disable Privacy Setup services during Setup Assistant by installing the "com.apple.SetupAssistant.managed" configuration profile.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-268497
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-268497r1034431_rule
Check ID
C-72527r1034429_chk
Fix ID
F-72428r1034430_fix