Profile-based User Enrollment is no longer supported in iOS18

[FlorianMoennig]

Hello folks,

I am currently testing iOS 18 dev beta. As it stands, Profile-based User Enrolment is no longer supported and you are forced to use Account Driven Enrolment with Managed Apple ID. Is this correct? Are there any official sources from Apple? I haven't found anything about this in the release notes.

Best regards,
Florian

[VincentB]

That's indeed a very hard information to find, I swore that macOS 15 b1 and iOS 18 b1 release notes included some wording about deprecated profile-based user enrollment but this isn't the case anymore in b2 release notes.

You can also find some traces of its original announcement in this "What's new for enterprise in macOS Sonoma" article but not in its equivalent for iOS...

And finally some engineer from Apple confirmed this behaviour in this thread.

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Profile-driven User Enrollment was deprecated last year, and support for it has been removed in this year's developer seeds of Apple OSes. Devices that were already enrolled will continue to work, but it is not be possible to initiate new profile-driven User Enrollments in those OSes.

To be clear, account-driven User Enrollment, profile-driven device enrollment, account-driven device enrollment, and all other MDM enrollment types are unaffected and continue to be supported.

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I hope this helps a bit,

Vincent