What every company should consider when evaluating this year’s most anticipated Apple enterprise feature

We’ve heard this question from our customers for years. Is there a way to stop users from updating their iOS devices? But until Apple recently announced the availability of deferred updates for iOS 11.3 (Beta) supervised devices, it hasn’t been possible. Now that the day is finally here, one question organizations should consider is, “should we delay an iOS update?”

On the one hand, we want to make sure that users are having the best possible experience they can on their device, which means they need the latest features Apple delivers in new releases of iOS. And people DO update their devices. As of January 18, 2018, 65% of iOS devices were running iOS 11,* and more than 50% of users upgraded to iOS 11 within the first three weeks after launch.** End users benefit from the latest consumer advancements, known bugs and security exploits are addressed, and the enterprise is able to deploy the newest EMM features. A win-win right? More on that later...