WWDC2025 MDM News!

📱 All the New MDM Features from Apple’s WWDC25

Apple's WWDC25 unveiled a massive slate of upgrades to Mobile Device Management (MDM), showcasing a vision centered around declarative management, automation, and streamlined identity. Here's a partial breakdown of everything new for IT administrators with Apple environments.


🔧 1. Apple Business & School Manager Gets Smarter


🛠 2. Declarative Device Management (DDM)


🌐 3. Safari & Network Management


🔁 4. Return to Service (Shared Devices)


📦 5. Smarter App Management


🛂 6. Identity & Access Enhancements


🔄 7. Migrating Devices to a New MDM Without Re-enrolling

For the first time, Apple lets you move devices between MDM servers without wiping or re-enrolling them. This is ideal during MDM vendor transitions or domain restructures and something I will personally test heavily when it is available. Will be very interesting to see how it work in practice.

🔑 Key Features:

🧭 Step-by-Step:

  1. In ABM/ASM, navigate to Devices > Assign to Server
  2. Select the new MDM server
  3. Set the migration window
  4. Devices will prompt users (or auto-migrate after the deadline)

🖼 Example Screenshots:

ABM device reassignment screen

Above: Device selection screen in Apple Business Manager

MDM migration flow

Above: New server assignment view via Apple Configurator (visionOS example)


💡 Why It Matters

BenefitHow It Helps
ScalabilityDeclarative model means less MDM traffic and higher reliability
EfficiencyFaster deployment, shared device prep, and app control
SecurityTighter control over identity, accounts, and update timelines
User ExperienceMore seamless onboarding, shared use, and app management

🧠 TL;DR: Apple MDM in 2025