Ensure Writing Tools Is Disabled

LowLevel 1Automatedmacos

Description

Apple Intelligence Writing Tools are a suite of AI-powered features integrated across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, enabling users to enhance their text by proofreading for errors, rewriting content to adjust tone or style, summarizing lengthy passages into concise forms, and even composing new text from scratch.

How it is checked

Audit method: Shell command

shell

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

Expected output: false

How it is fixed

Fix method: Guidance or infrastructure patch

Profile (preferred): com.apple.applicationaccess allowWritingTools = <false/>.

Properties

Operating systems: macos-26
Tags: macossystem-settings
Reference: CIS Apple macOS 26 Tahoe Benchmark v1.1.0 - 2.5.1.2 Ensure Writing Tools Is Disabled

Check this host

Run this on a machine you are allowed to audit. The scan is read-only.

shell

tmaegis scan --target macos