Blocking Siri on macOS Sierra
Siri is a welcome addition to macOS Sierra, but in certain environments it’s a service which needs to be disabled. For those Mac admins who need to do this, here are the relevant keys:
Stop Siri from running:
Block Siri’s menubar icon:
For those who want to disable Siri using management profiles, I’ve created .mobileconfig files and posted them here on Github:
https://github.com/rtrouton/profiles/tree/master/DisableSiri
Hat tip to Brad Vrooman for posting about the correct settings.
Categories: Mac administration, macOS
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Hey Rich,
I checked the links you provided and didn’t see any documentation on where these plist typically live on 10.12. Are these user specific in ~/Library/Preferences/ or system specific in /Library/Preferences (or somewhere else)? Mainly asking for documentation’s sake.
Cheers!
These are profiles, so they can be applied at either the computer or user level. While I haven’t tested this myself, I’ve updated our first run script (which is based largely on Rich’s) to apply the above PLIST settings to the User Template folder. I imagine you could apply the PLISTs in either the /Library or ~/Library folder for users.