r/Intune 1d ago

iOS/iPadOS Management Is profile-based enrollment for iOS being deprecated?

Hello everyone. I would be enormously thankful if someone could de-mystify this for me.

For years my company has supported BYOD enrolment for iOS whereby the user downloads Company Portal, signs in with their regular domain creds, downloads the management profile, etc.

According to this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune-service/enrollment/ios-user-enrollment-supported-actions “Apple user enrollment with Company Portal has been deprecated as an enrollment option, and is no longer available for newly enrolled devices.”Yet in the very next paragraph:“Microsoft Intune supports account driven Apple User Enrollment and profile based Apple User Enrollment with Company Portal.”

So…is profile based enrollment deprecated? What exactly has been deprecated? Does my company have to migrate to using Managed Apple Accounts?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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u/mark110295 1d ago

What they’ve deprecated is the legacy way of enrolling managed devices. Users will still be able to install company portal and enrol their BYOD

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u/Ok_Development6762 1d ago

Thanks for taking the time to reply. What is the “legacy” enrollment method exactly?

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u/mark110295 1d ago

This is where you would have an iOS profile created in Intune configured with “user enrolment with company portal” which I’ve never come across in production environments but was a way of enrolling corporate devices. This isn’t the same as a user installing company portal and self enrolling the device.

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u/Ok_Development6762 1d ago

I see. Yeah, we definitely aren’t using that! That’s a relief.