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How to delete an empty static group?

  • October 26, 2026
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When I try to delete an empty, no longer needed static group, I get the message: “The following items are dependent on this Static Mobile Device Group and need to be updated:...”

Then there is a list of profiles, policies, and apps the group is scoped to.

There are NO devices in this group, so why can’t I just delete it?  It appears that I will have to go to each item listed and manually remove the defunct group from its scope.  The group I am currently looking at has 12 items its scoped to.  12 items to click in to and remove the group from scope, BEFORE I can delete the group.  

Others have 20+ item which will be very time consuming if this is what I have to do to get rid of EMPTY unwanted groups and clean up my Pro instance.

 

Thoughts?  Am I missing something?

 

Thanks!

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  • October 26, 2026

That’s by design to prevent you from potentially causing issues with existing deployments.  It’s a safety net to avoid you breaking things by deleting an object that’s still in use.