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title: "User Experience with Managed OS for iOS, iPadOS and tvOS"
slug: "user-experience-with-managed-os-for-ios-ipados-and-tvos"
updated: 2025-02-25T18:57:35Z
published: 2025-02-25T18:57:35Z
canonical: "support.kandji.io/user-experience-with-managed-os-for-ios-ipados-and-tvos"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://support.kandji.io/kb/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# User Experience with Managed OS for iOS, iPadOS and tvOS

Kandji's Managed OS leverages native, built-in notifications and the familiar OS update experience you are already comfortable with. To avoid interruptions to your work, it is essential to understand what you will experience with Managed OS.

### **Upcoming Update Notifications**

Once Kandji has cached an update on your device, you will see a red notification badge on the Settings app indicating that an update is available.

**![](https://cdn.document360.io/0844b095-d720-4a7b-bb17-ec97d9bc6e41/Images/Documentation/sibk5mgqmi3vonq22mxnr24n5_31vcrqpq.png)**

You will also see a message at the top of the Settings app:

**![](https://cdn.document360.io/0844b095-d720-4a7b-bb17-ec97d9bc6e41/Images/Documentation/637e5656-96a1-47d6-9126-bc6d23c795f8.png)**

If you tap on that message (or navigate to **Settings > General > Software Update**), you will be able to proceed with the update before the enforcement deadline:![](https://cdn.document360.io/0844b095-d720-4a7b-bb17-ec97d9bc6e41/Images/Documentation/yHyGL8lHqJvbHeuhxtagK7DEeWlV6S7whQ.png)

### **Update Experience**

Once the enforcement deadline is reached, your experience will vary depending on whether a passcode exists on the device:

- Since tvOS does not support passcodes, the update will be installed immediately, and the Apple TV will reboot.
- iOS and iPadOS devices that do not have a passcode will behave the same way as tvOS.

> [!WARNING]
> Once devices without a passcode reach their enforcement deadline, the device will restart without warning and begin the update process.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/0844b095-d720-4a7b-bb17-ec97d9bc6e41/Images/Documentation/-kIgsKgVPPGelkPk8aH3O5DLtPrZLOQpog.png)

### Unique Update Prompts for Passcode-Protected Devices

iOS and iPadOS devices that are protected with a passcode require that you enter your passcode to authorize any operating system update. At the Lock Screen, you will see a notification:![](https://cdn.document360.io/0844b095-d720-4a7b-bb17-ec97d9bc6e41/Images/Documentation/zmO5oFgCr47Uf7E6juBmIJiFIUq2m0Ar7Q.png)

Once at the Home Screen, you will first see a Software Update prompt giving you the ability to kick off the update immediately or later:![](https://cdn.document360.io/0844b095-d720-4a7b-bb17-ec97d9bc6e41/Images/Documentation/t-aPC9twEa9debcVPOrhmeVWWviN9YrVNw.png)

If you choose to proceed with the update, you will be prompted for your passcode and the update will be installed right away.

If you instead tap **Later**, you will be asked to enter your passcode to authorize the update to happen overnight.

At the bottom of that screen is a **Remind Me Later** option to further defer the update:![](https://cdn.document360.io/0844b095-d720-4a7b-bb17-ec97d9bc6e41/Images/Documentation/_m_z54LxS6et8Q_-nn4sMNY6HdVS2D1iOQ.png)

You are allowed to defer the update just three times. After a third deferral, you will be forced to update your device before continuing to use it:![](https://cdn.document360.io/0844b095-d720-4a7b-bb17-ec97d9bc6e41/Images/Documentation/MWDg00kNKt03MAEaFCfb1rodHSS5WT07jw.png)

> [!NOTE]
> This three-deferral limit for MDM-initiated updates is new in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 and later and is enforced across a device restart. Previous versions did not limit the number of deferrals.

Once you enter your passcode to allow the update, your device applies the update overnight.