Apple Vision Pro has tremendous opportunity in the enterprise. However, version 1.0 of the visionOS software shipped without mobile device management support. That’s about to change with the upcoming visionOS 1.1 software update. Apple released the first developer beta version of the software today.
Mobile device management, of MDM, is critical for using Apple devices in business environments. For example, my pal Jeff Richardson from iPhone J.D. was unable to access his work email, contacts, and calendar on Apple Vision Pro without MDM support. Starting in visionOS 1.1, Apple Vision Pro will treat MDM accounts just like on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. This will really unlock using Apple Vision Pro for work for a lot of folks.
Apple provided an interview to TechCrunch announcing the upcoming feature:
Today, the company is announcing that the beta release of visionOS 1.1 includes device management for the first time. “We’re going to bring device management capability into that beta,” Jeremy Butcher, worldwide product marketing for enterprise at Apple, told TechCrunch.
“We know that in order to unlock all of [the power of the Apple Vision Pro], businesses are going to want to manage these devices at scale. So the good news is we’ve got a lot of great technology to bring over to Vision Pro in that regard,” he said.
You can read the full piece here. The article includes much more perspective from Apple as well as Jamf leadership.
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