STIGUI
V-268500CAT II — Medium severitySV-268500r1034440_rule

The macOS system must disable Siri Setup during Setup Assistant.

Rule version APPL-15-002039 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

The prompt for Siri during Setup Assistant must be disabled.

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

Check

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

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

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

Fix

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

Identifiers

Group ID
V-268500
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-268500r1034440_rule
Check ID
C-72530r1034438_chk
Fix ID
F-72431r1034439_fix