STIGUI
V-269096CAT II — Medium severitySV-269096r1131214_rule

The macOS system must disable sending audio recordings and transcripts to Apple.

Rule version APPL-15-002023 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

The ability for Apple to store and review audio recordings and transcripts of vocal shortcuts and voice control interactions must be disabled.

The information system must be configured to provide only essential capabilities. Disabling the submission of this information will mitigate the risk of unwanted data being sent to Apple.

Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable sending audio recordings and transcripts with the following command:

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

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

Fix

Configure the macOS system to disable sending audio recordings and transcripts by installing the "com.apple.accessibility" configuration profile.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-269096
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-269096r1131214_rule
Check ID
C-73126r1131213_chk
Fix ID
F-73027r1034783_fix