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

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

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

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

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

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.

The script is below and is also available on my GitHub repo.

https://github.com/rtrouton/rtrouton_scripts/tree/master/rtrouton_scripts/disable_apple_icloud_data_privacy_diagnostic_and_siri_pop_ups

This script is also available as a payload-free package on my GitHub repo, available for download from the payload_free_package directory available from the link above.

For those who prefer to suppress the Data & Privacy pop-up window using a profile, a .mobileconfig file is available via the link below:

https://github.com/rtrouton/profiles/tree/master/SkipDataAndPrivacy