Configure an Apple Intelligence & Siri setting in Apple Business Essentials
The Apple Intelligence & Siri setting allows you restrict Apple Intelligence & Siri on iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices.
Note: This setting requires iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS 15, or later.
In Apple Business Essentials, sign in with a user who has the role of Administrator.
Select Settings
in the sidebar, then select All Settings.Select the Add button
next to Apple Intelligence & Siri.Under Platform, select the operating systems you would like to configure this setting for.
Select any of the following to manage Apple Intelligence:
Allow Genmoji: Allow the use of Genmoji.
Allow Image Playground: Allow the use of Image Playground.
Allow Image Wand (iOS and iPadOS): Allow the use of Image Wand.
Allow Personalized Handwriting (iOS and iPadOS): Allow the system to generate text in the user’s handwriting.
Allow Writing Tools: Allow the use of Writing Tools.
Allow Mail Summary: Allow manual creation of email summaries.
This doesn’t affect automatic summary generation.
Select any of the following to manage Siri:
Allow Siri: Allow the use of Siri.
Allow Siri while locked (iOS and iPadOS): Siri responds only when the device is unlocked.
Require Siri profanity filter: Require the use of the Siri profanity filter.
Allow user-generated content in Siri (iOS and iPadOS): Allow Siri to access content from sources that allow user-generated content, such as Wikipedia.
Allow Siri Suggestions: During search, Siri can offer suggestions for apps, people, locations, and more.
Require on-device translation only: Prevents the device from connecting to Siri servers for the purposes of translation.
Require on-device dictation only: Prevents dictated content from being sent to Siri servers for processing.
Supported on the following devices:
iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, or later
iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad mini (5th generation), iPad Pro (2nd generation), or later
Mac computers with Apple silicon
Allow external intelligence integrations (requires iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, macOS 18.2, or later): Allow the use of external, cloud-based intelligence services with Siri.
Allow sign-in for external intelligence integrations (requires iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, macOS 18.2, or later): If not allowed, forces external intelligence providers into anonymous mode.
Note: If a user is already signed in to an external intelligence provider, applying this restriction signs them out.
Allow External Intelligence Workspace ID (requires supervision and iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, macOS 18.3, or later): Apple Intelligence allows only the given external integration workspace ID to be used, and will require sign-in in order to make requests.
Allow Notes Transcription Summary (requires iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, macOS 18.3, or later): Allow summarization of transcripts of audio recorded in Notes.
Allow Visual Intelligence Summary (requires iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, or later): Allow summarization of information from visual intelligence.
Select Save.