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As an IT Administrator for a financial firm, I'm looking to remotely disable iMessage and FaceTime for users enrolled in MDM via Intune. I also have an account with Apple Business Manager and am wondering if there's a feature that allows me to disable these services for the users.
iPhone 14
You can block both if they are supervised devices.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/configuration/device-restrictions-ios
You can block both if they are supervised devices.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/configuration/device-restrictions-ios
If they're enrolled in MDM, then simply use MDM to block iMessage... It doesn't require wiping. There may be an impact if they are iMessaging people, but that cannot be avoided. There should be a key similar to the one attached here:
(Note that Apple Business Manager is NOT an MDM. An MDM is provided by additional purchase from Apple, Jamf, Kandji, Mosyle, Microsoft, or one of the many other vendors out there).
I would think you should be able to push out the policy change without wiping and re-enrolling the devices, but I admit I'm not well educated enough on intune to say for sure. I'm still in the process of figuring out how to move several hundred devices from Miradore to intune and get them configured the way we want them...
The issue is that these users are already enrolled without having their phones wiped and re-enrolled, where we could select 'No' for iMessage and FaceTime. I'm wondering if there's a way to implement this without affecting their currently enrolled corporate iPhones.
Are these company owned devices or BYOD?
Company owned
You can't really do anything without an MDM. If you are a financial firm in the US, you really need to have all your devices enrolled in MDM for compliance.
They are enrolled in MDM just want to disable iMessage on it without any user impact
I work for a Financial Firm as IT Admin I would like to disable iMessage and FaceTime remotely for the users in the company.
