Also at WWDC, Apple warned IT that some current management features would be deprecated after iOS 9, and said MDM providers and IT alike should prepare now for those changes.
In that next version of iOS, MDM tools will no longer be able to manage the following features on unsupervised (BYOD) devices: app installation, app removal, FaceTime, Siri, Safari, iTunes, use of explicit content, iCloud documents and data, and multiplayer gaming. Those controls will remain available for supervised devices.
The rationale is that all those features are personal ones that IT should not be able to restrict on personal devices. IT can either provide supervised devices to users or go with the container approach offered by many MDM providers to separate the corporate portion of an iOS device from the personal portion. Although iOS doesn't use the same type of container mechanism as Android, iOS allows effectively the same level of separation for corporate-issued apps and the data they contain.
Apple's Fernandez noted at WWDC that the policies for these nine features predated the introduction of supervised-device capabilities in iOS, so that new method is the better way to manage them now on devices that truly belong to the company. Essentially, Apple is focused on strengthening iOS's management capabilities for corporate-provisioned apps and data, while at the same time keeping IT from messing with personal apps and data.
In that next version of iOS, MDM tools will no longer be able to manage the following features on unsupervised (BYOD) devices: app installation, app removal, FaceTime, Siri, Safari, iTunes, use of explicit content, iCloud documents and data, and multiplayer gaming. Those controls will remain available for supervised devices.
The rationale is that all those features are personal ones that IT should not be able to restrict on personal devices. IT can either provide supervised devices to users or go with the container approach offered by many MDM providers to separate the corporate portion of an iOS device from the personal portion. Although iOS doesn't use the same type of container mechanism as Android, iOS allows effectively the same level of separation for corporate-issued apps and the data they contain.
Apple's Fernandez noted at WWDC that the policies for these nine features predated the introduction of supervised-device capabilities in iOS, so that new method is the better way to manage them now on devices that truly belong to the company. Essentially, Apple is focused on strengthening iOS's management capabilities for corporate-provisioned apps and data, while at the same time keeping IT from messing with personal apps and data.
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