Ensure Help Apple Improve Search Is Disabled

LowLevel 1Manual reviewmacos

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: Manual review

This recommendation cannot be checked automatically. A scan lists it with these instructions when you pass --include-manual.

GUI: System Settings > General > Device Management > Verify that an installed profile has Search Queries Data Sharing Status set to 2. Terminal: sudo /usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript (JXA) reading NSUserDefaults suite com.apple.assistant.support, key Search Queries Data Sharing Status

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-15
Tags: macossystem-settings
Reference: CIS Apple macOS 15.0 Sequoia Benchmark v2.1.0 - 2.9.1 Ensure Help Apple Improve Search Is Disabled