I was trying to enable filevault on my test Catalina before mass deployment. I pushed the policy and restarted the Mac, but the laptop is not getting encrypted. In Hexnode, its shows that the filevault policy association is a success. I am fairly new to the mac world and am in dare need of help. Please excuse me if this is already discussed here.
Hey @Xaander-Saans,
We have checked the case, and it seems like an issue with macOS Catalina (10.15). However, here is a workaround that might be of help. Update the following configurations in the policy,
Skip enabling FileVault at user login: Checked
Maximum skip attempts: 0
Plug in the device to a power source and restart the device after associating the modified policy. This might trigger the prompt to enable FileVault at the next login.
Hope this helps, but if this doesn’t work out, please do let us know.
Nora Lang
Hexnode UEM
14 August 2021