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V-277104

CAT II (Medium)

The macOS system must disable sending search data from Spotlight to Apple.

Rule ID

SV-277104r1148764_rule

STIG

Apple macOS 26 (Tahoe) Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R2

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

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

Check Content

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable sending search data from Spotlight with the following command:

/usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript << EOS
$.NSUserDefaults.alloc.initWithSuiteName('com.apple.assistant.support')\
.objectForKey('Search Queries Data Sharing Status').js
EOS

If the result is not "2", this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the macOS system to disable sending search data from Spotlight by installing the "com.apple.assistant.support" configuration profile.