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V-268573CAT II — Medium severitySV-268573r1034659_rule

The macOS system must disable Apple Intelligence Image Generation.

Rule version APPL-15-005150 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

Apple Intelligence features that use off-device artificial intelligence must be disabled.

Use of off-device AI poses a data loss risk.

Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable Apple Intelligence Image Generation with the following command:

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

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

Fix

Configure the macOS system to disable Apple Intelligence Image Generation by installing the "com.apple.applicationaccess" configuration profile.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-268573
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-268573r1034659_rule
Check ID
C-72603r1034657_chk
Fix ID
F-72504r1034658_fix