4 updates with Apple’s iPhone iOS 13 software that business users will love

Apple’s next big update to its iPhone software, iOS 13, is expected this autumn. While most of the new features in it are aimed at consumers, the company did unveil several key new updates for business users, too.

We don’t have many details on these features. But Apple did provide a summary of them in its detailed list of new iOS 13 features released on Monday in conjunction with the start of its annual Worldwide Developers Conference this week in San Jose, California.

Here’s what we know.

An employee’s personal device will be able to separate business apps and data

This is a feature called “user enrolment”, and it’s for people who use their own personal phone for work. We don’t have details on how this will work, except that it involves having “separate iCloud accounts for your personal and work lives”, as Apple’s senior vice-president of software engineering, Craig Federighi, described on stage on Monday. We presume it will be an option in Apple’s Business Manager, the service Apple rolled out at last year’s WWDC, which lets IT department manage fleets of Apple devices and volume-licensed apps.

Apple introduced ways to separate personal data on a phone owned by the company and controlled by IT when it released Business Manager, so this next step is important.

It’s worth noting that Google launched Android for Work back in 2015, which provides similar functions.