Enforce software updates for iOS devices

During last year’s WWDC Apple provided MDM vendors a new way to enforce software updates on iOS devices which are supervised. This is a big improvement over the previous options as users are no longer able to skip or circumvent these updates. The new feature allows administrators to set a deadline by which the update must be installed. The user always has the option to install the update prior to the date set through the MDM solution. This week’s release of iOS 17.6 gave me an opportunity to test this feature with our BlackBerry UEM. I was curious to see which notifications a user would get on their device as the WWDC23 video only shows the notifications for macOS. The first screen shows that the MDM has enforced an iOS update and by when the update will be installed. The second and third screen show the respective notifications 12 hours and one week before the update is due.