MacOS 15.3RC Apple Intellegence behavior

[AJPinto]

For those who don't know, MacOS 15.3RC changes the behavior of Apple Intelligence and no longer provides an opt out during setup assistant. Users can either enable, or click go back, the option to setup later has been removed. 

If you are an organization that does not yet allow AI, I urge you to check your beta seed documentation and submit feedback to Apple. Making changes like this in an RC release does not provide prior time to identify, evaluate and implement solutions. Thankfully we are in a good place, but others may not be.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-15_3-release-notes

[jamf-42]

so, we have all the config profiles to block Apple AI.. in 15.2 ..  not had time to test 15.3RC.. im guessing these work? or do we need to do something else? 

[AJPinto]

I'm testing the config profile below right now. Looks promising but I dont have all the validation docs done yet so Im hesetent to say "yay is good". Also can only be deployed to macOS 15 devices, so I guess SOL for macOS 14 devices?

https://github.com/rtrouton/profiles/tree/main/SkipAppleIntelligenceSetup

[Jason33]

macOS 14 doesnt support Apple Intelligence, so just deploy to macOS 15

Edit - never mind me, I think I know what you're getting at!!

[AJPinto]

lol, yep. MacOS 14 devices upgrading to macOS 15 need to stop on 15.1 or 15.2. If they go directly to 15.3+ they will see this dialog and there is nothing you can do about it as Jamf wouldn't have necessarily realized the device has macOS 15 yet to target the profile before the user can log in.

[Jason33]

Yeah, took me a second...and then it hit me. This is the type of silliness that I didnt expect to see from Apple; disappointing, to be honest.

[ScottEKendall]

Dan K. Snelson has a writeup about this on his site: https://snelson.us/2024/10/apple-intelligence-extension-attribute/