How to Disable Remote Management using Mac Terminal

To disable Remote Management on your Mac using the Terminal, you can follow the below two steps.

Step 1: Run the command to Disable Remote Management

Open Terminal and run the below command,

% sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -deactivate -stop

Password:
Starting...
Removed preference to start ARD after reboot.
Done.

Step 2: Restart your Mac

To apply the changes you will need to restart your Mac device

If you later wish to activate it again, run the below command in Terminal.

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate

This is not an AI-generated article but is demonstrated by a human on an M1 Mac running macOS Sonoma 14.0.

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