Disabling the iCloud and Diagnostics pop-up windows in Yosemite

Starting in 10.7.2, Apple has set the iCloud sign-in to pop up on the first login.

In 10.10, Apple added a new Diagnostics & Usage window that pops up at first login after the iCloud sign-in.

Since having these pop-up windows appear may not be desirable in all Mac environments, it makes sense to be able to turn this off for new user accounts. As part of preparing for Yosemite in my own shop, I’ve developed a script that should disable both the iCloud and Diagnostics pop-ups on 10.7.2 – 10.10.0. See below the jump for the details.

Apple is using /Users/username/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SetupAssistant.plist to store the settings that indicate whether or not the iCloud sign-in and Diagnostics agreement processes have run. Building on work done by the folks behind DeployStudio, I’ve built a script that pre-sets those values for new and existing accounts on a particular Mac. In turn, that should stop the iCloud and Diagnostics pop-up messages from appearing on that Mac.

The script is below and is also available on my GitHub repo. This script is also available as a payload-free package on my GitHub repo, available for download from the payload_free_package directory available from the link above.

	#!/bin/bash
	# Determine OS version
	osvers=$(sw_vers -productVersion | awk -F. '{print $2}')
	sw_vers=$(sw_vers -productVersion)
	# Determine OS build number
	sw_build=$(sw_vers -buildVersion)
	# Checks first to see if the Mac is running 10.7.0 or higher.
	# If so, the script checks the system default user template
	# for the presence of the Library/Preferences directory. Once
	# found, the iCloud and Diagnostic pop-up settings are set
	# to be disabled.
	if [[ ${osvers} -ge 7 ]]; then
	for USER_TEMPLATE in "/System/Library/User Template"/*
	do
	/usr/bin/defaults write "${USER_TEMPLATE}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SetupAssistant DidSeeCloudSetup -bool TRUE
	/usr/bin/defaults write "${USER_TEMPLATE}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SetupAssistant GestureMovieSeen none
	/usr/bin/defaults write "${USER_TEMPLATE}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SetupAssistant LastSeenCloudProductVersion "${sw_vers}"
	/usr/bin/defaults write "${USER_TEMPLATE}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SetupAssistant LastSeenBuddyBuildVersion "${sw_build}"
	done
	# Checks first to see if the Mac is running 10.7.0 or higher.
	# If so, the script checks the existing user folders in /Users
	# for the presence of the Library/Preferences directory.
	#
	# If the directory is not found, it is created and then the
	# iCloud and Diagnostic pop-up settings are set to be disabled.
	for USER_HOME in /Users/*
	do
	USER_UID=`basename "${USER_HOME}"`
	if [ ! "${USER_UID}" = "Shared" ]; then
	if [ ! -d "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences ]; then
	/bin/mkdir -p "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences
	/usr/sbin/chown "${USER_UID}" "${USER_HOME}"/Library
	/usr/sbin/chown "${USER_UID}" "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences
	fi
	if [ -d "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences ]; then
	/usr/bin/defaults write "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SetupAssistant DidSeeCloudSetup -bool TRUE
	/usr/bin/defaults write "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SetupAssistant GestureMovieSeen none
	/usr/bin/defaults write "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SetupAssistant LastSeenCloudProductVersion "${sw_vers}"
	/usr/bin/defaults write "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SetupAssistant LastSeenBuddyBuildVersion "${sw_build}"
	/usr/sbin/chown "${USER_UID}" "${USER_HOME}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SetupAssistant.plist
	fi
	fi
	done
	fi
	exit 0

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