Legacy Apple MDM software update workloads removed from Intune

What changed

Admins should use Apple declarative device management update policies to continue managing software updates. This keeps Intune UI, Graph, and documentation aligned with supported Apple capabilities and provides a clearer path for future update deployments.

Why it matters

Apple is retiring the underlying legacy MDM update commands, so remaining Intune update profiles, reports and automations must move to declarative device management before those workloads disappear.

Known limitations

• Availability, prerequisites and rollout scope remain authoritative in the linked Microsoft documentation.

Now check

• Inventory Apple software-update policies, reports, Graph calls and runbooks that still use legacy MDM commands
• Pilot the equivalent DDM software-update workflow on supported Apple devices
• Validate scheduling, deferrals, status reporting and rollback ownership before removing legacy dependencies