Notification warning while re-associating policySolved

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1 week ago Mar 24, 2026

Trying to enable eSIM in an existing policy, but I’m getting this warning:

Re-associating the policy will immediately remove all the disabled features configured in the policy from the devices. The features will otherwise be automatically removed in the next 7 day(s).
Are you sure you want to proceed?

This policy is already applied to ~30 devices. I’m literally just enabling eSIM, why is it acting like everything else such as restrictions will be removed? And it won’t even let me save cleanly without this warning. Is this message actually accurate?

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1 week ago Mar 25, 2026
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Yeah, that warning throws people off the first time.

What it means is that, if something was set to disabled before, and you have now changed that state, those changes will take effect immediately when you re-associate.

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6 days ago Mar 26, 2026
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But I didn’t touch anything else. Just turned on eSIM.

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Hexnode Expert
6 days ago Mar 26, 2026
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Hi everyone,

Jumping in here to clarify this behavior.

When you update and re-associate a policy, the device doesn’t process only the specific change you made, such as enabling eSIM. Instead, it evaluates and enforces the entire policy configuration as it currently exists. That’s why the prompt appears regardless of how minor the change is.

The message is simply warning that if any restriction that was previously set to disabled has now been changed to enabled, that change will take effect when the policy is reapplied.

In your case, enabling eSIM alone will not impact other restrictions unless those settings were also changed in the policy. If you want to be cautious, you can validate the change on a single device first, but from what you have described, this behavior is expected, and your existing restrictions will remain intact.

Regards,
Sienna Carter
Hexnode UEM

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