Disabling iOS 7 Activation Lock in an enterprise environment.
I'm wondering if anyone has found a solution for disabling the new Activation Lock feature in iOS 7 without needing to supervise the device through Apple Configurator? My dilemma is we have about 50 iPhones deployed in our company. The only way I have found to disable the Activation Lock feature is to supervise the device using Apple Configurator. However, if the device is supervised, the user cannot sync it with iTunes on their computer. A lot of our users do sync their iPhones to keep backups, transfer photos, etc. So the way I see it, I am left with two choices:
- We supervise all of our iPhones and tell our users they can't sync with iTunes anymore.
- We leave them unsupervised and make a policy that whenever we have to wipe a device we make the user disable Find My iPhone first.
Has anyone found a better solution to this? Also if we ever get in a situation where a user leaves the company and they did not disable Find My iPhone, can we send the iPhone back to Apple and have them wipe it? Or would we be left with a nice expensive paper weight?
iOS 7