Apple mobile management

With BigFix Mobile, you can seamlessly enroll iOS and iPadOS devices.

Through policies and actions, you can manage the MDM enrolled iOS and iPadOS devices in many ways including but not limited to the following:

Manage mobile settings and applications remotely.
Enforce security policies to prevent unauthorized access and sharing of corporate data and devices.
Remotely wipe corporate content from lost or stolen device and ensure corporate data security.
Remotely manage apps such as adding and assigning apps to devices, protecting company data in apps, force installing corporate apps.

Certificates

You needApple Push Notification Service to manage Apple mobile devices through MDM.

Important:

Ensure you always have a valid certificate by monitoring the notifications displayed on Modern Client Management dashboardin the WebUI.
Renew the APNs before expiry.
Keep the Apple enrollment certificate up to date for continued management of Apple devices without interruption.

Provisioning

The MDM protocol for provisioning iOS and iPadOS is largely the same as macOS. The same Apple MDM server and same Apple MDM PlugIn is used for all three options. The user experience during enrollment is slightly different. For more information on different types of enrollment options, see Provisioning Apple mobile devices.

Remote actions

You can perform remote actions like lock, wipe, wipe passcode, restart, shutdown, remove policy, and unenroll on one or more selected MDM managed iOS and iPadOS devices through WebUI. For more details and instructions, see Deploy MCM actions section in WebUI User Guide.

Policies

BigFix Mobile enables you to configure profiles for your iOS and iPadOS devices just the way you can configure your macOS devices. You can define Passcode policy, Restrictions Policy, Appstore App Policy, OS Update Policy settings through BigFix WebUI.

You can also create custom configuration policies in .xml, .mobileconfig, or syncML format and upload through WebUI.

Note: When you create custom policies, ensure the settings and the format are valid. For more information on configuring profile payloads and settings, see the official Apple documentation at Mobile Device Management Settings and Profile-specific Payload Keys.

Managing Applications

With the application management capability in BigFix Mobile, you can manage applications on your enrolled mobile devices such as add and assign apps to devices, protect company data in apps, force install work apps which do not require user permission, and do much more.

You can set Android App configurations through WebUI via App Catalog.

From BigFix WebUI, you can configure application permissions through Appstore App Policy. These permissions are applicable globally for all the apps. To do that:

List the app in the App Catalog and include it in an app policy.
Create an Appstore App Policy.
Add the created app policy to a policy group.
Deploy the policy group to MDM server or directly onto the selected devices.