Apple details new iOS 7 features for business, education
We’ve heard about the new look and feel of iOS 7, as well as about the most prominent features, but in its WWDC keynote Apple—as it often does—alluded to many new features that didn’t get their chance to shine. On its website, the company’s now detailed new features coming in this fall’s update for education and business users alike.
There’s a fair amount of overlap in these new capabilities, aimed as they are at institutions of a certain size. For example, App Store license management gives users at both businesses and education institutions the ability to provide apps to users via Apple’s App Store Volume Purchase Program, while letting the organization maintain control over app licenses; that way, the organization can revoke the apps at a later date, or reassign them to other students and employees. Personal Apple IDs can be enrolled in the program, and don’t have to be provided to the business or school.
Both schools and businesses also gain new mobile device management (MDM) options, letting them wirelessly set up apps, install custom fonts, configure accessibility options and AirPrint printers, and whitelist AirPlay destinations. In education environments, instructors can set up iOS devices to be locked to a certain app—for example, if students are taking a test.
Adding new devices via MDM is also simpler with iOS 7. At schools, new devices can be wirelessly enrolled during setup, and business-owned devices can be automatically enrolled at activation. In both cases, this can help reduce or replace entirely any manual configuration by an IT department.
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