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Configure Spotlight settings on Macs using configuration profiles
This document helps you configure Spotlight settings on Macs using custom configuration profiles.
Apple provides the Spotlight search option to assist customers in finding items on their macOS device or receiving suggestions from the App Store, Internet, Music, etc. Spotlight searches for items based on various different categories, like Applications, Images, Fonts, etc. But what if a company’s IT administrator only wants a select few categories to appear in the search results? Well, the admin can achieve this using a custom configuration profile that can be remotely deployed to multiple enrolled macOS devices using Hexnode’s Deploy Custom Configuration feature.
Creating customizations to configure Spotlight settings
The device management profile contains the orderedItems
array, which lists the various categories that can appear in the Spotlight search results. To disable any category, say Applications, change the value of the enabled key of the category from true to false. The disabled category will no longer appear in Spotlight search.
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