Ensure Help Apple Improve Search Is Disabled

LowLevel 1Automatedmacos

Description

Apple provides a mechanism to send diagnostic and analytics data back to Apple to help them improve the platform. Information sent to Apple may contain internal organizational information that should be controlled and not available for processing by Apple.

How it is checked

Audit method: Shell command

shell

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

Expected output: 2

How it is fixed

Fix method: Guidance or infrastructure patch

Profile (preferred): com.apple.assistant.support set to Search Queries Data Sharing Status = <integer>2</integer>.

Properties

Operating systems: macos-26
Tags: macossystem-settings
Reference: CIS Apple macOS 26 Tahoe Benchmark v1.1.0 - 2.9.1 Ensure Help Apple Improve Search 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