Any risk with forceWiFiToAllowedNetworksOnly new ios14.5 restriction

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Created Mar ’21

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Hi,
in ios14.5 we have new restriction "forceWiFiToAllowedNetworksOnly".
This limits device to only join Wi-Fi networks set-up via configuration profile.
If there is no valid wifi payload installed then this would stop communication with MDM server right?

If so, is there any recommendation on how to handle this or whether there are any constraints to check and not send this recommendation if so?

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Mar ’21

Hi there, this restriction isn't really new per-say, it's a rename of the existing forceWiFiWhitelisting restriction, so any existing logic you had in your product for that restriction will just apply to this new restriction.

You are correct that if you had no WiFi payloads on the device you would loose all WiFi connectivity. Some things you could do to get MDM communication again would be to use tethering over Lightning, use an Ethernet adapter or installing a WiFi profile using Configurator or manually.

One suggestion is to make sure that you always install the restriction in the same profile as the WiFi payload so you can't ever have the restriction installed without WiFi.

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