# Restrictions Payload MacOS

> This payload can be used to restrict access to certain features and capabilities of a macOS device.

Source: https://docs.capaone.com/capainstaller/the-capainstaller-console/configuration-management/what-is-configuration-management/profiles/macos-profiles/restrictions-payload-macos/  
Product: CapaInstaller — a separate CapaSystems product; do not apply this page to any other.

# Description

This payload can be used to restrict access to certain features and capabilities of a macOS device. Some restrictions require that the device is **Supervised** and is marked with an asterisk.

| Functionality                                       | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | Default Value   | Device Must be Supervised                                                   |
|:----------------------------------------------------|:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:----------------|:----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Functionality**                                   |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |                 |                                                                             |
| Allow Use Of Camera                                 | When false, the camera is completely disabled and its icon is removed from the Home screen. Users are unable to take photographs.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | \[Not Checked\] |                                                                             |
| Allow Cloud Back To My Mac                          | Optional. When false, disallows macOS Back to My Mac iCloud service. Availability: Available in macOS 10.12 and later.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | \[Not Checked\] |                                                                             |
| Allow Cloud Find My Mac                             | Optional. When false, disallows macOS Find My Mac iCloud service. Availability: Available in macOS 10.12 and later                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | \[Not Checked\] |                                                                             |
| Allow Cloud Bookmarks                               | Optional. When false, disallows macOS iCloud Bookmark sync. Availability: Available in macOS 10.12 and later.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | \[Checked\]     |                                                                             |
| Allow Cloud Mail                                    | Optional. When false, disallows macOS Mail iCloud services. Availability: Available in macOS 10.12 and later.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | \[Not Checked\] |                                                                             |
| Allow Cloud Calendar                                | Optional. When false, disallows macOS iCloud Calendar services. Availability: Available in macOS 10.12 and later.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | \[Not Checked\] |                                                                             |
| Allow Cloud Reminders                               | Optional. When false, disallows iCloud Reminder services. Availability: Available in macOS 10.12 and later.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | \[Checked\]     |                                                                             |
| Allow Cloud Address Book                            | Optional. When false, disallows macOS iCloud Address Book services. Availability: Available in macOS 10.12 and later.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | \[Not Checked\] |                                                                             |
| Allow Cloud Notes                                   | Optional. When false, disallows macOS iCloud Notes services. Availability: Available in macOS 10.12 and later.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | \[Checked\]     |                                                                             |
| Allow Cloud Document Sync                           | Optional. When false, disables document and key-value syncing to iCloud. Availability: Available in macOS 10.11 and later.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | \[Not Checked\] |                                                                             |
| Allow Cloud Key ChainSync                           | Optional. If false, disables iCloud keychain synchronization. The default is true. Availability: Available in macOS 10.12 and later.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | \[Not Checked\] |                                                                             |
| Allow Fingerprint For Unlock                        | Optional. If false, prevents Touch ID from unlocking a device. Availability: Available in macOS 10.12.4 and later.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | \[Not Checked\] |                                                                             |
| Allow iTunes File Sharing                           | Optional. When false, the iTunes application file-sharing services are disabled. Availability: Available in macOS 10.13 and later.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | \[Not Checked\] |                                                                             |
| Allow Spotlight Internet Results                    | Supervised only. If set to false, the Spotlight will not return Internet search results. Availability: Available in macOS 10.11 and later.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | \[Not Checked\] | ![](/attachments/capainstaller/1344ff03-fc7d-4eed-8f3f-edf44c73cb66.png) |
| Allow Definition Lookup                             | Supervised only. If set to false, disables definition lookup. Defaults to true. Availability: Available in macOS 10.11.2 and later.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | \[Not Checked\] | ![](/attachments/capainstaller/1344ff03-fc7d-4eed-8f3f-edf44c73cb66.png) |
| Allow Music Service                                 | Supervised only. If set to false, Music service is disabled and the Music app reverts to classic mode. Defaults to true. Availability: Available in macOS 10.12 and later.                                                                                                                                                                                                           | \[Not Checked\] | ![](/attachments/capainstaller/1344ff03-fc7d-4eed-8f3f-edf44c73cb66.png) |
| Allow Cloud Photo Library                           | If set to false, disables iCloud Photo Library. Any photos not fully downloaded from iCloud Photo Library to the device will be removed from local storage. Availability: Available in macOS 10.12 and later.                                                                                                                                                                        | \[Not Checked\] |                                                                             |
| Allow Auto Unlock                                   | If set to false, disallows macOS auto-unlock. Defaults to true. Availability: Available only in macOS 10.12 and later.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | \[Not Checked\] |                                                                             |
| Allow Cloud Desktop And Documents                   | If set to false, disallows macOS cloud desktop and document services. Defaults to true. Availability: Available in macOS 10.12.4 and later.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | \[Checked\]     |                                                                             |
| Allow Air Print                                     | Supervised only. If set to false, disallow AirPrint. Defaults to true. Availability: Available only in macOS 10.13 and later.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | \[Not Checked\] | ![](/attachments/capainstaller/1344ff03-fc7d-4eed-8f3f-edf44c73cb66.png) |
| Force Air Print Trusted TLS Requirement             | Supervised only. If set to true, requires trusted certificates for TLS printing communication. Defaults to false. Availability: Available in macOS 10.13 and later.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | \[Not Checked\] | ![](/attachments/capainstaller/1344ff03-fc7d-4eed-8f3f-edf44c73cb66.png) |
| Allow Air Print iBeacon Discovery                   | Supervised only. If set to false, disables iBeacon discovery of AirPrint printers. This prevents spurious AirPrint Bluetooth beacons from phishing for network traffic. Defaults to true. Availability: Available in and macOS 10.13 and later.                                                                                                                                      | \[Not Checked\] | ![](/attachments/capainstaller/1344ff03-fc7d-4eed-8f3f-edf44c73cb66.png) |
| Force Delayed Software Updates                      | Supervised only. If set to true, delay user visibility of Software Updates. Defaults to false. Availability: Available only in macOS 10.13.4 and later.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | \[Not Checked\] | ![](/attachments/capainstaller/1344ff03-fc7d-4eed-8f3f-edf44c73cb66.png) |
| Enforced Software Update Delay                      | Supervised only. This restriction allows the admin to set how many days a software update on the device will be delayed. With this restriction in place, the user will not see a software update until the specified number of days after the software update release date. The max is 90 days and the default value is 30. Availability: Available only in macOS 10.13.4 and later. | 30              | ![](/attachments/capainstaller/1344ff03-fc7d-4eed-8f3f-edf44c73cb66.png) |
| **macOS 10.13+ features**                           |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |                 |                                                                             |
| Allow Content Caching                               | When false, this disallows content caching. Defaults to true                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | \[Checked\]     | ![](/attachments/capainstaller/1344ff03-fc7d-4eed-8f3f-edf44c73cb66.png) |
| **macOS 10.14+ features**                           |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |                 |                                                                             |
| Force Classroom Automatically Join Classes          | If set to true, automatically give permission to the teacherʼs requests without prompting the student. Defaults to false.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | \[Not Checked\] | ![](/attachments/capainstaller/1344ff03-fc7d-4eed-8f3f-edf44c73cb66.png) |
| Force Classroom Request Permission To Leave Classes | If set to true, a student enrolled in an unmanaged course via Classroom will request permission from the teacher when attempting to leave the course. Defaults to false.                                                                                                                                                                                                             | \[Not Checked\] | ![](/attachments/capainstaller/1344ff03-fc7d-4eed-8f3f-edf44c73cb66.png) |
| Force Classroom Unprompted App And Device Lock      | If set to true, allow the teacher to lock apps or the device without prompting the student. Defaults to false.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | \[Not Checked\] | ![](/attachments/capainstaller/1344ff03-fc7d-4eed-8f3f-edf44c73cb66.png) |
| Force Classroom Unprompted Screen Observation       | If set to true, and 'Screen Observation Permission Modification Allowed' is also true in the Education payload, a student enrolled in a managed course via the Classroom app will automatically give permission to that courseʼs teacherʼs requests to observe the studentʼs screen without prompting the student. Defaults to false.                                                | \[Not Checked\] | ![](/attachments/capainstaller/1344ff03-fc7d-4eed-8f3f-edf44c73cb66.png) |
| Allow Password AutoFill                             | If set to false, users will not be able to use the AutoFill Passwords feature on iOS and will not be prompted to use a saved password in Safari or in apps. If set to false                                                                                                                                                                                                          | \[Checked\]     | ![](/attachments/capainstaller/1344ff03-fc7d-4eed-8f3f-edf44c73cb66.png) |
| Allow Password Proximity Requests                   | If set to false, a userʼs device will not request passwords from nearby devices. Defaults to true.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | \[Checked\]     | ![](/attachments/capainstaller/1344ff03-fc7d-4eed-8f3f-edf44c73cb66.png) |
| Allow Password Sharing                              | If set to false, users can not share their passwords with the Airdrop Passwords feature. Defaults to true.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | \[Checked\]     | ![](/attachments/capainstaller/1344ff03-fc7d-4eed-8f3f-edf44c73cb66.png) |

:::tip
For more information on specific features, refer to Apple’s documentation → [Apple Configuration Profile Reference](https://developer.apple.com/library/content/featuredarticles/iPhoneConfigurationProfileRef/Introduction/Introduction.html)
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