by Jason Snell
visionOS 1.1 improves Personas, adds MDM support
The first major visionOS update was released Thursday, with a bunch of security fixes as well as some more substantive interface updates:
- Personas are improved, and there’s a new accessibility mode you can use to capture a Persona hands-free. My Persona certainly looks better when running 1.1. (You’ll need to capture a new Persona.)
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Organizations that use Mobile Device Management (MDM) to configure, deploy, and manage Apple devices can support Vision Pro.
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You can delete Apple’s apps from the Home view.
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iMessage Contact Key Verification, a feature recently introduced to Apple’s other platforms but not supported in visionOS 1.0, is now supported.
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There are a grab bag of other items, including general improvements to the virtual keyboard, Mac Virtual Display, closed captions, and support for captive Wi-Fi networks.
Updating visionOS is weird. You use the Software Update section of the Settings app, of course, but when it’s ready to install you’re instructed to take the device off so it can reboot and install it. It’s very weird to just walk away and come back later, but I also don’t really want to sit in the dark waiting for visionOS to do its thing, so this is how it will be, I guess.