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Disable Siri setup assistant in macOS Sierra

  • October 21, 2016
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Hi,

does anybody already found solution how to disable Siri setup during first configuration? So I'm using script to disable iCloud, diagnostics and setup windows and enable location services however in macOS Sierra we also have window to enable or disable Siri. I tried with script to modify com.apple.SetupAssistant.plist same as with iCloud but with Siri it's not working.

Any ideas or working solutions?

Best answer by Retrac

[This man has you covered - Suppressing Siri pop-up windows on macOS Sierra](link https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2016/09/20/supressing-siri-pop-up-windows-on-macos-sierra/)

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  • Retrac
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  • October 21, 2016

[This man has you covered - Suppressing Siri pop-up windows on macOS Sierra](link https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2016/09/20/supressing-siri-pop-up-windows-on-macos-sierra/)

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  • frank11_2
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  • October 21, 2016

Hi @pawel.kopocz

Do the setup assistant manually then visit /Users/~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SetupAssistant.plist

Seems like there's a new key for it called DidSeeSiriSetup.

Put this command in your script/workflow and it should skip it, I haven't had a chance to test myself yet.

/usr/bin/defaults write com.apple.SetupAssistant "DidSeeSiriSetup" -bool true

Cheers,

Frank

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  • plawrence
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  • October 21, 2016

@pawel.kopocz Do you mean during the after imaging Adobe Temporary Installer account? I cant find a way to stop that one from appearing. It looks like the adobeinstall account doesnt get a home folder created, so it doesnt get the preferences from the User Template that are created by rtoutons scripts.

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  • pawel_kopocz
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  • October 24, 2016

@Retrac @frank Thanks guys, it's working now!

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  • cgiordano
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  • October 27, 2016

I know that you've got it worked out already but I'd definitely recommend going this route, especially if you don't want your users to Enable Siri at all.

https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/discussions/21154/macos-x-sierra-went-gm-anyone-kill-siri-yet

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  • Vanegas
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  • July 6, 2017

@pawel.kopocz I too am struggling in disabling Siri at the second reboot during a Casper imaging workflow.
How exactly did you get passed this issue?

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  • jgrubbs
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  • September 8, 2017

I ran both of these commands but neither were successful:

sudo defaults write /System/Library/User Template/Non_localized/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SetupAssistant DidSeeSiriSetup -bool TRUE
/usr/bin/defaults write com.apple.SetupAssistant "DidSeeSiriSetup" -bool true

Users are still prompted to sign in with an Apple ID.

Any other ideas?

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