It’s important to note that account driven user enrollment was largely designed as a way for users to enroll their personal devices into MDM, while corporate devices are typically managed with a more traditional profile-based enrollment that gives IT more access and management options. As it always has, Apple creates a secure partition between work and personal apps and data. While a device is typically limited to supporting just a single Apple ID, account driven user enrollment, introduced two years ago, enables support for a personal Apple ID and Managed Apple ID on the same device. The home for all of these features from a user perspective is in the Settings app, where they can find additional information about their managed ID and decide which iCloud services they want to use with it. ![]() There is enterprise value in terms of enhancing productivity and the changes could encourage people to use managed devices because they will find comparable feature sets. The overall theme here is that Apple is working hard to replicate the personal iOS/macOS user experience for manage devices. AirPlay to Mac for streaming content to a Mac’s display is also now supported. There’s also support for syncing Siri data and Messages and one surprising addition: support for the Wallet app and Apple Pay. Another is Continuity Camera for using an iPhone’s camera while videoconferencing on a Mac or other device. One particularly useful Continuity feature for business users is the Instant Hotspot feature. One major improvement is that the Managed Apple ID now works with Apple’s Continuity system that makes it possible to work across devices with features such as Handoff, Sidecar, Universal Control, and copying and pasting. While iCloud Keychain support is the big news for Managed Apple IDs this year, the company is also expanding other services. Additional iCloud and Continuity features All three extend secure login, authentication and access to resources. Passkey support and the ability to sync passkeys joins other Apple enterprise features including platform single sign-on to streamline access to any internal or cloud resources through federated identity and Sign in with Apple at Work or School. This increases the viability of passkeys in a business environment. ![]() With its new OS releases this year, Apple will be expanding support for iCloud with Managed Apple IDs the biggest new feature is that Managed Apple IDs now support the same kind of sync as personal Apple IDs. In the consumer space, both passwords and passkeys can be automatically synced using iCloud. While passkey support is pre-existing in iOS and macOS, implementing it in the workplace, where users typically rely on multiple devices - an iPhone and a Mac at the least - has had one roadblock: syncing passkeys (and passwords) across devices. ![]() Passkeys go a long way to making access to apps and resource both more secure and more convenient. ![]() Apps and websites that support passkeys can generate them at sign up and login screens. Like other tech companies, Apple has been attempting to replace passwords with a secure alternative and had already introduced support for secure authentication using passkeys. Passwords, passkeys and Sign in with Apple Combined with Microsoft Azure AD and Google Workspace, which were already supported, this means that the vast majority of organizations will be able to easily create and manage Managed Apple IDs. This year, Apple is making major improvements in what identity providers can be used with OpenID now being supported and support for Okta coming later this year. To create and work with Managed Apple IDs, Apple Business/School Manager needs to be federated with an organization’s identity provider.
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