GitHub Issue

Profile clarification

Discovered On Oct 5, 2026

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According to Apple’s documentation, the Apple Intelligence restrictions have been depreciated in macOS 26.4 and above, and the new IntelligenceSettings require declarative management. So, what exactly does the profile installed by RemoveMacAI use to turn off Apple Intelligence? Device Management Profile - Restrictions https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/restrictions Object - IntelligenceSettings https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/intelligencesettings Web Service Endpoint - Declarative Management https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/declarative-management

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omlahore • Oct 5, 2026

You're right that Apple marked those keys deprecated in 26.4. The profile still uses them, in a Restrictions payload with allowWritingTools, allowGenmoji, allowImagePlayground, allowAssistant and the rest. It also forces preferences for the parts that have no restriction key (Siri's own switches, notification and Messages summaries, inline predictions and Spatial Photos), and it points the model downloads at a closed local port.

IntelligenceSettings is a declarative management configuration, so it has to come from an MDM server, and a profile you install yourself can't carry it. Without MDM the deprecated keys are the only way I know of to lock these.

On macOS 27.0 (26A428) they still work as far as I can tell. With the profile installed, macOS adds _isAppleIntelligenceRestricted = 1 to the managed restrictions and fills in two settings the profile never sets, Assistant Allowed = 0 in com.apple.ironwood.support and DisableImagePlaygroundiCloudSetting = 1. NSWritingToolsCoordinator.is...

sxflynn • Oct 5, 2026

Are you using AI to write your replies?

tully-8888 • Oct 5, 2026

Some details to add, from Apple's docs and from a test on macOS 27.0.1 (26A434):

**What Apple's docs say**
- All 13 Restrictions keys in the profile (`allowWritingTools`, `allowGenmoji`, `allowImagePlayground`, `allowAssistant`, `allowDictation`, `allowMailSummary`, `allowMailSmartReplies`, `allowSafariSummary`, `allowNotesTranscription`, `allowNotesTranscriptionSummary`, `allowAppleIntelligenceReport`, `allowExternalIntelligenceIntegrations`, `allowExternalIntelligenceIntegrationsSignIn`) are marked "Deprecated: macOS 26.4+". On macOS, none of them is marked as requiring supervision, so an unsupervised Mac still accepts them.
- [IntelligenceSettings](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/intelligencesettings) (`com.apple.configuration.intelligence.settings`) is allowed only in **supervised** enrollment. Device enrollment, user enrollment and local enrollment are all "N/A". So even a Mac enrolled in MDM can't use it unless it is supervised (Apple Business/School M...