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V-268523CAT II — Medium severitySV-268523r1034509_rule

The macOS system must disable iCloud Game Center.

Rule version APPL-15-002160 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

This works only with supervised devices (mobile device management [MDM]) and allows to disable Apple Game Center. The rationale is that Game Center is using Apple ID and will share data on AppleID-based services; therefore, Game Center must be disabled.

This setting also prohibits the functionality of adding friends to Game Center.

Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable iCloud Game Center with the following command:

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

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

Fix

Configure the macOS system to disable iCloud Game Center by installing the "com.apple.applicationaccess" configuration profile.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-268523
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-268523r1034509_rule
Check ID
C-72553r1034507_chk
Fix ID
F-72454r1034508_fix