[Damion Participant 28 July 2022 Damion Participant]

You can block users from accessing the Apple ID preference pane using this script: https://www.hexnode.com/mobile-device-management/help/script-to-hide-disable-different-system-preferences-panes-on-mac/

Just specify the identifier com.apple.preferences.AppleIDPrefPane.

You could do the same for iCloud too: com.apple.preferences.icloud

Hope that helps @Kipp.

[Kipp Participant 28 July 2022 Kipp Participant]

Thanks a ton @Damion, I was able to successfully disable the Apple ID preference pane, but couldn’t disable iCloud, is this a known issue, or did I do something wrong.

[Tad Participant 28 July 2022 Tad Participant]

Seems like com.apple.preferences.icloud and com.apple.preferences.AppleIDPrefPane have been deprecated since macOS 10.7: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/systempreferences?language=objc

[Kipp Participant 28 July 2022 Kipp Participant]

That’s a bummer! Disabling the Apple ID pane still works on some devices, and I don’t know why! Guess I will have to figure out a way to do this manually. Is there a way to check out what iCloud ID and Apple ID are signed in on our devices?

[Damion Participant 28 July 2022 Damion Participant]

I found this script: https://www.hexnode.com/mobile-device-management/help/script-to-fetch-the-apple-ids-of-users-on-mac/

You can confirm if devices are signed into an Apple ID and fetch the Apple ID.

For iCloud, I found this script to check if iCloud is enabled on a device, returns True if iCloud is enabled:

Result="True" for user in $(dscl . list /Users UniqueID | awk '$2 >= 500 {print $1}'); do if [ -e /Users/$user/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/ ]; then Result="False" fi done echo $Result

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Result="True" for user in $(dscl . list /Users UniqueID | awk '$2 >= 500 {print $1}'); do if [ -e /Users/$user/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/ ]; then Result="False" fi done echo $Result

 

Hope this helps

[Kipp Participant 28 July 2022 Kipp Participant]

I really appreciate it guyss

[Arleen Participant 10 October 2022 Arleen Participant]

Thanks to all, you helped me as well.