When employees set up their phones and tablets as company-owned devices, they give your organization full control over those devices—allowing you to apply policies regarding app installation, network settings, security options, and more. This helps protect your users and your corporate data.
If you have advanced mobile device management but don’t register your company-owned devices in the Admin console, your users must choose to set up their devices as company-owned.
To encourage more users to make this choice, we’ll start showing the screen below to all users who add their G Suite account to a new Android device before adding their personal account.
This change will start rolling out on September 19th, 2018; please note that it may take several weeks for it to take effect for all users.
Currently, your users only see this choice if your organization has Device Owner mode enabled. That option will disappear from the Admin console on September 19th.
Note that users will only see the screen and option above on new (and recently factory-reset) devices running Android 6.0 or higher.
Allowing users to install any app from the managed Google Play store
In addition to the change outlined above, we’re making it easier to install apps on company-owned Android devices and work profiles.
Currently, you have to actively whitelist apps to make them available to your users. Starting on September 19th, users with company-owned Android devices and work profiles will be allowed to install any app from the managed Google Play store by default. If you don’t want your users to do this, you can choose to restrict app availability to whitelisted apps.
Launch Details
Release track:
Launching to both Rapid Release and Scheduled Release on September 19th, 2018
Editions:
Available to all G Suite and Cloud Identity Premium editions
Rollout pace:
Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility)
Impact:
All end users
Action:
Change management suggested/FYI
More Information
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If you have advanced mobile device management but don’t register your company-owned devices in the Admin console, your users must choose to set up their devices as company-owned.
To encourage more users to make this choice, we’ll start showing the screen below to all users who add their G Suite account to a new Android device before adding their personal account.
This change will start rolling out on September 19th, 2018; please note that it may take several weeks for it to take effect for all users.
Starting on September 19th, users will be asked if they own the device they’re setting up. Unless they explicitly state that they own the device personally, ownership will be auto-assigned to your organization.
Note that users will only see the screen and option above on new (and recently factory-reset) devices running Android 6.0 or higher.
Allowing users to install any app from the managed Google Play store
In addition to the change outlined above, we’re making it easier to install apps on company-owned Android devices and work profiles.
Currently, you have to actively whitelist apps to make them available to your users. Starting on September 19th, users with company-owned Android devices and work profiles will be allowed to install any app from the managed Google Play store by default. If you don’t want your users to do this, you can choose to restrict app availability to whitelisted apps.
Launch Details
Release track:
Launching to both Rapid Release and Scheduled Release on September 19th, 2018
Editions:
Available to all G Suite and Cloud Identity Premium editions
Rollout pace:
Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility)
Impact:
All end users
Action:
Change management suggested/FYI
More Information
Help Center: Set up Android devices your company owns
Launch release calendar
Launch detail categories
Get these product update alerts by email
Subscribe to the RSS feed of these updates