AIOS-15-013100 - Apple iOS/iPadOS 15 must disable Find My Friends in the Find My app.

Information

This control does not share a DoD user's location but encourages location sharing between DoD mobile device users, which can lead to operational security (OPSEC) risks. Sharing the location of a DoD mobile device is a violation of AIOS-15-011700.

SFR ID: FMT_SMF_EXT.1.1 #47

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Solution

Install a configuration profile to disable 'Find My Friends' in the Find My app and 'Allow modifying Find My Friends' in the management tool. This a supervised-only control.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Apple_iOS-iPadOS_15_V1R4_STIG.zip