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V-277131CAT II — Medium severitySV-277131r1148845_rule

The macOS system must disable iCloud Game Center.

Rule version APPL-26-002160 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

This works only with supervised devices (mobile device management [MDM]) and allows users 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-277131
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-277131r1148845_rule
Check ID
C-81286r1148843_chk
Fix ID
F-81191r1148844_fix