Hello, Thanks for all these new amazing updates,
With the changes regarding the management state not restored anymore from the backup on iOS 27, can we expect the following flow to work: Backup an iPhone, adding it to Apple Business and ADE, and restore the same backup during activation to trigger ADE enrollement while restoring the backup on the device ?
Currently when users are migrating a device from unmanaged to managed we have them restore the backup on the buffer device, backup this buffer device and restore that backup on the original iPhone.
It would be really helpful when customers are starting to manage existing devices.
Thanks
Backup an iPhone, adding it to Apple Business and ADE, and restore the same backup during activation to trigger ADE enrollement while restoring the backup on the device ?
Yes, this should work. On iOS 27, after restoring from the backup, the user should be forced to go through ADE enrollment regardless of any enrollment state saved in the backup.
It's also worth mentioning that admins can use the do_not_use_profile_from_backup flag in the cloud config profile on iOS 26.4+ to achieve the same behavior. The key is not required on iOS 27. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/profile