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Prevents devices from requesting passwords from nearby devices. Requires iOS 12 or later, macOS Prevents changing Bluetooth settings on iPad and iPhone. Disables Apple Wallet notifications from displaying when iPad and iPhone are locked. Disables internet search results from displaying in Spotlight searches.

Disables iPad and iPhone from automatically sending diagnostic reports to Apple. Prevents changing notification settings on iPad and iPhone. Disables notifications from displaying in the Notifications history view when an iPad or iPhone is locked. New notifications remain visible when they arrive. Disables the Today view in the notification center when iPad and iPhone are locked. Disables the Find My Device app.

Disables the Find My Friends app. Disables the QuickPath Keyboard. Disables Handoff on iPad, iPhone, and Mac. Requires iOS 12 or later, and tvOS 9 or later. Prevents changing the cellular data access settings for apps on iPad and iPhone. Disables background fetch activity for email, apps, etc. Forces Wi-Fi to always be on. It cannot be turned off on the device. Prevents changes to Personal Hotspot settings on iPad and iPhone. Disables syncing document and app data to iCloud on iPad, iPhone, and Mac.

Disables the use of Siri on iPad and iPhone. If the restriction is turned off, Siri will remain off until users turn it back on. Disables Siri on iPad and iPhone when locked with a passcode. This is ignored if the device does not have a passcode. Disables user-generated content like Wikipedia. Filters profanity from Siri responses on iPad and iPhone.

Prevents the wallpaper from being changed on iPad, iPhone, and Mac. App updates are not available until after the specified delay. Requires macOS 11 or later. Home Blueprints Restrictions for Apple Devices. X X Disable Automatic App Downloads Disables automatic app downloads for apps purchased on another device with the same iCloud account.

X X Unmanaged App Data Segregation Documents in unmanaged apps and email accounts will only open in other unmanaged apps and email accounts on iPad and iPhone. Warning: This also unpairs and erases any currently paired Apple Watch. Disable Installing Apps on device. Disable Adding App Clips. Disable Deleting Apps. Disable Deleting System Apps.

Disable Camera. Disable FaceTime. Disable Safari. Disable Safari JavaScript. Disable Safari Popups. Disables showing pop-up tabs within Safari. Disable Safari Auto-Fill. Block All Cookies in Safari. Depending on your organization, this may be enough. In macOS Catalina Administrators can still run commands from Jamf Pro to get available updates and install them. This profile by itself is not enough to prevent end users from manually opening the Software Update pane in System Preferences and checking for updates.

When saving, choose the option to deploy to all computers. After the profile is installed, the Software Update pane is dimmed and inaccessible to all users on a Mac. Note that if it detected an update prior to installing the profile, an alert badge will still appear on the icon. Administrators can configure the Restricted Software feature found under Computers in Jamf Pro to warn or prevent users from running the Monterey installer.

We can use this feature in a few different ways, and it will apply whether the end user is a Standard user or an Admin user. Restrict by application name and warn the end user. Restrict using the InstallAssistant process and warn the end user. An alternative to restricting the app name, which the end user can change, is to restrict the InstallAssistant process name. This is the name of the process that runs when double-clicking any macOS installer and displaying windows guiding the process.

Restrict using the application name and kill the process. This is similar to the first method, but it includes the Kill Process option. Instead of allowing the end user to continue, Jamf Pro will quit the installer within a few seconds. Adding the Delete Application option will delete it immediately, bypassing the Trash. When restricting by application name, be aware the end user can simply rename the installer and bypass the restriction. Restrict using the InstallAssistant process name and kill the process.

This is similar to the second method, but it includes the Kill Process option and could include the Delete Application option. It will prevent any macOS installer from running when double-clicked including Monterey, Big Sur, etc. However, commands from Jamf Pro can still install them. Macs running macOS High Sierra Macs running macOS Big Sur If both macOS Monterey Furthermore, administrators running Jamf Pro For example, they can allow their Macs to show the minor Big Sur Along with beta testing, organizations have a lot of time to verify their environments will support a new macOS version or work with software vendors to provide updates.

Betas generally run at least two months before general release. The beta period plus the day deferral period combined provides administrators about five months to test software before deploying to their environment. Anyone with admin privileges on a Mac can do practically anything, including installing an operating system.

The most basic step we can take is to remove admin privileges from end users and require they use Self Service for running policies we allow. Setting a firmware password on Intel Macs or a Recovery Lock password on Apple Silicon Macs prevents anyone without the password from booting to the Recovery HD, erasing the existing operating system and installing a new macOS. Since this is at the hardware level, no one without the password can install or upgrade.

The caveat with setting a hardware level password is that someone in Technical Support helping a remote user may have to provide this password to the end user. For example, they can use scoping Exclusions to avoid restricting their own test devices. Before we can deploy the macOS installer, we need to acquire it.

According to Mr. Macintosh , a great blog with a heavy focus on Mac installers, upgrades and updates, there are eight ways to download full installers. It has the advantage of being a small and light command that we can send to our Macs to retrieve the installer themselves, which works great with on-premises content caching servers. And its reliability has greatly improved over the past year. Configure one or a few of the beefiest Mac workstations as a caching server by turning on Content Caching in the Sharing pane of System Preferences.

Later, the rest of the Macs will pull automatically from this server instead of the internet. New in macOS Big Sur Open Terminal and run:. To download one of the older full installers, add the --full-installer-version option with the specific macOS version you want. For example, to get the macOS Big Sur Remember, this list command runs only on Big Sur While this works well, it does have one big caveat.

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Thank you for your feedback. Adaptavist Theme Builder 4. All rights reserved. The Security settings in Jamf Pro allow you to do the following: Enable certificate-based authentication. Enable push notifications. Automatically install the Privacy Preferences Policy Control profile. Automatically install a Jamf Notifications profile. Configure SSL certificate verification. Specify a maximum clock skew between managed computers and the Jamf Pro host server. Require login authentication when retrieving PreStage imaging and Autorun imaging information.

Consider the following when configuring SSL certificate verification: If you are using the self-signed certificate from Apache Tomcat that is built into Jamf Pro, you must select "Always except during enrollment".