iOS Do not disturb while driving (force enable)

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Evan
Restaurant Equipment Service Group (RES)

With DEP enabled for iOS devices (iPhones mainly), how can we enable the iOS feature of Do Not Disturb While Driving automatically? Furthermore, make it enabled and unable to change the setting? We have a fleet of drivers and want to turn this on to further cement in our driving policy of no calls while the vehicle is moving. 

7 years ago
SOTI MobiControl
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Hi Evan,

The iOS "do not disturb while driving" setting does not have an option for configuration VIA the DEP portal yet and in turn we do not have an option to toggle it on or off, or even a permission to force enable it.    I would imagine that the device would need to be supervised, an option to access settings disabled, and an option in Mobicontrol, Supervised mode or VIA the DEP portal to force enable it would need to be configurable. 

I see that you have requested a feature control with regards to this.   I will see if we can get more traction on your request as it may payoff as one of the more ethical adjustments SOTI can request from device manufacturers.

Feel free to inquire with your Account Manager as well as they can provided feedback regarding the feature request process.

Cheers,

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Raymond Chan Diamond Contributor
7 years ago

Based on the latest official MDM profile specification from Apple, no MDM/EMM solution on the market has any way to control the "Do not distrub" status of any iOS devices in any way.  Apple simply does not allow such control.