Workflow for macOS and iOS updates?

No real way to enforce updates (although I think the lastest version of Jamf alluded to an API call). We use Nudge set to a 14 day update period. https://github.com/macadmins/nudge

@jonlju There are MDM commands to tell a Mac to update, with options to either allow deferral or to force the update, and you can trigger those either via the Jamf Pro console, or a script calling the Jamf Pro API. Unfortunately neither update option is extremely reliable, although Apple has mentioned fixing software update issues in the past few Monterey releases.

The sad state of affairs for macOS updates these days is that it's much more complicated to get them done in an automated fashion or without direct user involvement than it ever should be. Blame for this goes squarely on Apple. It's frankly an embarrassment how difficult it is. Windows admins now actually have something genuine to laugh at us about.

In the past it was a simple matter of running a sudo softwareupdate -i -a on computers. But then Apple took that all away for, some reason? So, you can't do that anymore. The API calls are there, but as mentioned are not as reliable as they should be.

Maybe Apple will actually fix this someday so our Macs can be reliably updated again.

Nudge is awesome for maOS!

What about iOS updates?  Right not i am struggling to enforce iOS updates.