What is new for MDM

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What's New for MDM at WWDC 2024

Apple introduced several new features and enhancements for Mobile Device Management (MDM) at WWDC 2024. Here are the key updates:

  1. Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager:

    • Automated Device Enrollment: Now available for Apple Vision Pro, allowing IT teams to enroll devices into MDM during the setup assistant process.
    • Domain Capture: Improvements to make it easier to deploy managed Apple accounts.
    • Activation Lock: New features to recover organization devices with activation lock enabled by MDM or the user.

  2. Software Update Controls:

    • Phased Rollout: Implement phased rollouts starting from the first beta.
    • New Software Update Settings Configuration: Replaces all legacy MDM software update management commands, profiles, and restrictions. This is applicable to supervised devices with iOS and iPadOS 18 and macOS 15 or later.

  3. Safari Extensions:

    • IT teams can now manage and enable Safari extensions directly from MDM, allowing customization of Safari for organizational use.

  4. VisionOS 2.0:

    • MDM Support: Expanded management capabilities for Apple Vision Pro, including new configurations, payloads, commands, and restrictions.
    • App Deployment: Similar app deployment process as iPhone and iPad, with added compatibility information for VisionOS.

  5. Security and Identity:

    • Team Identity for In-House Apps: Installing proprietary in-house apps using a new team identity will require a restart.
    • Platform Single Sign-On (SSO): Expanded capabilities to leverage identity provider information across more areas, including FileVault login and lock screen.

  6. Disk Management:

    • New configuration to manage external and network storage, replacing the deprecated media management payload.

  7. Education Enhancements:

    • Multi-App Mode for iPad: Includes secondary apps and the new calculator app, with configurations for assessment mode and MDM.

For more detailed information, you can refer to the session What’s new in device management.

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What’s new in device management

What’s new in device management

Learn about the latest management capabilities for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS, then discover the latest changes to Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager. We’ll also share updates to Activation Lock, SoftwareUpdate, and Safari management.