Supervision can only be turned on when you set up a new device. By default, your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch isn’t supervised. It also provides additional device configurations and features, like silently updating apps or filtering web usage. With supervision, your administrator can apply extra restrictions like turning off AirDrop or preventing access to the App Store. Supervision gives schools and businesses greater control over the iOS devices they own. Apple has a support page to guide you through discovering if your device supervised. One of the first things to understand if your company uses a MDM is whether or not an iOS device is supervised or not (supervision is iOS only). If you’re wondering if your IT department can read your iMessages, you’ve come to the right place.Ībout Apple Work: Bradley Chambers has been managing an enterprise IT network since 2009 Through his experience deploying and managing firewalls, switches, a mobile device management system, enterprise-grade Wi-Fi, 100s of Macs, and 100s of iPads, Bradley will highlight ways in which Apple IT managers deploy Apple devices, build networks to support them, train users, stories from the trenches of IT management, and ways Apple could improve its products for IT departments. Thankfully, Apple has clear APIs for how their devices interact with MDMs, so end users can rest assured their IT department doesn’t have access to everything on their devices. For those that love to tinker, set up, and manage their own devices, having them “managed” may seem like big brother is watching. One of the common things I hear about Mobile Device Management solutions from my technology-focused friends is they hate when their company IT departments “suck” their devices into the management system the organization chooses.

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