The “it just works” magic doesn’t apply in business environments
Android doesn’t allow that either nowadays. It’s just a matter of security. You wouldn’t want an unauthorized person to connect you to an insecure network or let them stop you from receiving important messages. Whether it’s worth it to force the user to log in is debatable though.
I honestly don’t see a reason why I would need to connect to a WiFi from the lock screen.
For personal usage, there isn’t
In a business (remote) environment, it’s extremely useful so the device can connect back with the MDM console so I can (easily) get the employee back into their laptop after they lock themselves out of the account.
Without it, I have to do annoying shit like walking them through dropping into Single-user mode or some shit. Very annoying and a 5 minute process just became like a 1-2 hour ordeal depending on user skill level.
I typed an ironic comment into my last answer about exactly such a scenario but deleted it, assuming a local login would still be possible. Like a domain login where on a failed attempt to establish connection during login would load a local profile that would be synced upon connection.
I’m just curious here, but what are your Mac users doing to lock their accounts so often that this has become such a recurring pain point?
I feel for you, ever since I got approval to move all our mac’s to kandji for management, I have less issues reported from Mac users than windows users.
