Jamf Unveils Expanded AI Governance and Apple Device Management Features at JNUC 2026
Summary
At JNUC 2026, Jamf announced expanded AI governance for Mac, mobile and browsers, plus device-health monitoring, staged rollouts, APIs and on-device AI management. Its tools aim to help organizations monitor and control AI use on endpoints.
Key points
- Jamf announced browser-based AI visibility and policy controls, extending its AI Governance capabilities to Mac and mobile users.
- The company said its AI Visibility Report had been enabled by more than 600 organizations, covering over 250,000 endpoints.
- New AI governance features include policies, model and token-usage insights, and reports on the types of work employees ask AI tools to perform.
- Jamf described a workflow for deploying and configuring on-device AI models, with prompts routed through an on-device AI gateway.
- Device Health tracks Mac performance, stability, battery and storage over time; Jamf demonstrated using the data to identify a third-party agent repeatedly waking Macs overnight.
- Jamf demonstrated staged software rollouts that use device-health data to assess updates before expanding deployment.
Article Details
- Event Type
- Jamf announced product and platform updates at its JNUC 2026 keynote, including API, device-management, and AI governance capabilities.
- Impact
- Announced features include a unified Jamf Platform API gateway, updates to blueprints and Apps and Books, Device Health, ring deployments, the Vitals AI diagnostic assistant, and expanded AI governance for visibility, policies, model insights, and on-device AI. The article describes product capabilities and demonstrations; it does not report a security incident or confirmed security impact.
People
Beth TschidaJamf CEO who delivered the JNUC 2026 keynote.Dan MacLaughlinJamf Senior Consulting Engineer who demonstrated Device Health and Routines.Jeremy ButcherApple Senior Director of Product Marketing who spoke about Apple's enterprise and education offerings.Katie EnglishJamf Principal Product Manager who presented product developments.Matt BenyoJamf Director of Software Engineering who presented Device Health and ring deployments.Matt VlasachJamf Senior Vice President of Enterprise Products and Solutions Engineering who interviewed partner representatives.Mike CampinJamf SVP of Engineering who presented AI Governance capabilities.Mischa van der BentJamf Consulting Engineer who demonstrated blueprints and related features.Rob PotvinJamf Senior Consulting Engineer who demonstrated AI visibility and control capabilities.Scott MunsonAnthropic representative interviewed during the keynote's discussion of AI governance partnerships.Siva RaghupathyAWS representative interviewed during the keynote's discussion of AI governance partnerships.
Vendors
Amazon Web ServicesSenior Vice President of Enterprise Products and Solutions Engineering Matt Vlasach then sat down to interview two of our most important partners: Siva Raghupathy from AWS and Scott Munson from Anthropic.AnthropicSenior Vice President of Enterprise Products and Solutions Engineering Matt Vlasach then sat down to interview two of our most important partners: Siva Raghupathy from AWS and Scott Munson from Anthropic.AppleTschida briefly discussed how much has changed in Apple device management in the years of JNUC.JamfJamf Nation: "the best community in tech"
Products
Claude Desktopitself and adding it to a blueprint. They also demonstrated how to use an AI policy to configure Claude Desktop to connect to the AI model they had deployed to the same device.Jamf Platform APIrest of your infrastructure instead of sitting off to the side of it. It's now all running on the Jamf Platform API in a single place, not through a patchwork of APIs and supporting tools.Jamf Prowork rebuilding Apps and Books; it’s already running inside Jamf School today, and this year it comes to Jamf Pro as a blueprints-native component," said English. "So license assignment is optimized against Apple’sJamf RoutinesOther updates include Jamf Routines, the extension of AI governance to the web and much more.Jamf School"We’ve been hard at work rebuilding Apps and Books; it’s already running inside Jamf School today, and this year it comes to Jamf Pro as a blueprints-native component," said English. "So license assignment is optimizedSelf Service+This includes a blueprints API, Device Health: a continuous record of hardware health, ring deployments and Vitals: an AI-powered diagnostic assistant built into Self Service+.