Disable automatic storage of documents in iCloud Drive
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- macOS onlyThis script improves your privacy on macOS
- Impact: MinimumSystem Functionality Loss Risk: Low
This action improves privacy with minimal impact when you run the recommended script. - Bash (Shell script)These changes use macOS system commands to update your settings.
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This web page helps you analyze: disable automatic storage of documents in iCloud Drive on macOS to protect your data through higher sensitive privacy defenses. Along with this, process to roll back modifications is detailed below.
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Technical Details
This script refines macOS preferences on system level to help reinforce sensitive privacy assurance owing to controlled defaults. This configuration can also help maximize system performance, to benefit from efficient operation.
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- Difficulty: Medium
- ≈ 5 instructions
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defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false
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- ≈ 2 min to complete
- Tools: Terminal app
- Difficulty: undefined
- ≈ 3 instructions
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Open terminal
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Paste & run
Paste the code into Terminal and press Enter to run.Some changes require a system restart to take effect
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