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V-279329CAT II — Medium severitySV-279329r1207646_rule

The macOS system must disable Apple Intelligence during Setup Assistant.

Rule version APPL-26-005170 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

The prompt for Apple Intelligence setup during Setup Assistant must be disabled.

Disabling Apple watches is a necessary step to ensuring the information system retains a session lock until the user reestablishes access using authorized identification and authentication procedures.

Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to skip Apple Intelligence during Setup Assistant with the following command:

/usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript 2>/dev/null << EOS $.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.SetupAssistant.managed')\ .objectForKey('SkipSetupItems').containsObject("Intelligence") EOS

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

Fix

Configure the macOS system to skip Apple Intelligence during Setup Assistant by installing the "com.apple.SetupAssistant.managed" configuration profile.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-279329
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-279329r1207646_rule
Check ID
C-83880r1149388_chk
Fix ID
F-83785r1207645_fix