What’s in iOS 26 for the enterprise admin?Solved

Yes! I dug into a few articles, and there’s more granular control on per-app basis. For example, you can block camera access for certain apps. Think about social media tools, great for communication, but maybe you don’t want them doubling up as a camera app too. That control now seems possible.

And Safari got an upgrade for admins as well. Customizable start pages, bookmarks, private browsing restrictions. It feels like Apple is giving us knobs and levers we need.

Well, what else?

We have recently been trying to relocate one of our satellite offices and want to move the device management workload along with the iPhones and I have noticed in iOS 26 that helps with this migration.

With iOS 26, iPhones can be migrated to a new management service straight from Apple School Manager or Business Manager. Plus, you can enforce enrollment deadlines, which is handy if you’re phasing things out office by office.

Also, the new Return to Service update is a lifesaver. When you wipe and re-provision, it now preserves managed apps, so you’re not sitting around waiting for dozens of installs to finish. It just erases user data, keeps the binaries, and gets the device ready way faster.

And if your device fleet is iPhone 11 or later, you’re good to upgrade directly to iOS 26 and use these features. Anything older might be stuck.

Hey guys, I just want to add one more thing to this thread. Software update management is changing. Apple has officially deprecated the old way, using MDM commands, restrictions, and the com.apple.SoftwareUpdate payload. That’ll be gone next year.

From now on, everything moves to declarative software update management. There’s a Hexnode doc that outlines how preferences work with declarative, but the short version is: if you haven’t started planning, now’s the time.