STIG V-277183 | The macOS system must disable Apple I...

macOS 26 - Tahoe

The macOS system must disable Apple Intelligence Image Playground

STIG ID: APPL-26-005150 | SRG: SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049 | Severity: Medium | CCI: CCI-000381 | Vulnerability ID: V-277183

Description

Apple Intelligence features such as Image Playground must be disabled.

Using off-device AI poses a data loss risk.

Check

C-81338r1149374_chk

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable Apple Intelligence Image Playground with the following command:

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

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

Fix

F-81243r1149375_fix

Configure the macOS system to disable Apple Intelligence Image Playground by installing the "com.apple.applicationaccess" configuration profile.