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Suppressing the Data & Privacy pop-up window on macOS High Sierra

April 4, 2018 7 comments

Starting with Mac OS X 10.7.2, Apple set the iCloud sign-in to pop up on the first login.

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

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In macOS 10.12, Apple added another pop-up window for Siri.

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In macOS 10.13.4, Apple has added a Data & Privacy pop-up window for their data privacy information.

Data and privacy pop up

To stop the Data & Privacy pop-up window from appearing for your home folder, run the command shown below:

defaults write com.apple.SetupAssistant DidSeePrivacy -bool TRUE

Since you normally will be able to run this command only after you’ve seen the Data & Privacy pop-up window, I’ve updated my script for suppressing the various pop-up windows to now also suppress the Data & Privacy pop-up window. For more details, see below the jump.

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