Kandji Is Now Iru: A New Chapter for Apple-First Management in the AI Era
What the rebrand means for Mac Admins—and why it signals a broader shift toward unified, AI-powered IT platforms.
Kandji Rebrands
Kandji, the Apple device management platform known for its elegant automation and compliance workflows, has officially become Iru (pronounced EE-roo).
As announced by Weldon Dodd in the Mac Admins Slack community, this marks a defining step for the company—transforming from an Apple MDM pioneer into an AI-powered IT security platform that unites identity, access, endpoint management, and compliance.
For Mac Admins, this change invites both curiosity and confidence: curiosity about what “AI-powered” truly means for device management, and confidence that the same Kandji team—and their Apple-first philosophy—remain firmly in place.
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Key Changes & New Capabilities
New Name, Same Apple Focus Apple remains the foundation. Existing Kandji configurations, devices, and agents continue operating without disruption.
Cross-Platform Expansion Iru extends its reach to Windows and Android, allowing admins to manage mixed environments under a unified platform while maintaining Apple-first priorities.
AI-Powered Insights & Actions The introduction of Iru AI brings context-aware automation—smart insights, self-healing actions, and predictive compliance alerts.
Integrated Identity & Access Built-in passwordless authentication, passkey support, and granular admin session controls connect MDM and IAM under one platform remain a vital piece of the Iru product.
Continuous Compliance AI-native compliance automation tailors custom controls, breaks them into tasks, and maps evidence automatically, keeping you audit-ready.
Seamless Upgrade Path No migration headaches. Customers will be invited in cohorts for a guided in-app upgrade experience that keeps existing configurations, devices, and workflows intact.
Impact on Mac Administration
For Apple administrators, the transition from Kandji to Iru represents evolution, not disruption.
Here’s what matters most for day-to-day management:
Stability You Can Trust There is no rebuild, this is an upgrade to the current product. Your fleet keeps checking in as normal—no agent reinstalls, no new enrollment profiles.
Smarter Automation, Fewer Tickets If Kandji was known for elegant abstraction, Iru doubles down—applying AI to automate maintenance, remediation, and compliance responses.
Better Cross-Team Alignment Iru’s unified compliance and identity data could enable IT and Security teams to collaborate on shared dashboards and enforcement logic without leaving the Apple ecosystem.
Implementation & Recommendations
If your organization currently uses Kandji:
- Wait for the Upgrade Invite – You’ll see in-app prompts when your tenant becomes eligible.
- Update Admin Bookmarks – The admin login domain is changing from *.kandji.io to *.iru.com.
- Verify API Integrations – Check automation scripts, webhooks, or CI/CD connections that reference kandji.io.
- Review Role Scopes – Use the new granular session controls to tighten access based on roles or temporary scopes.
The Bigger Picture
This shift reflects a major theme across modern IT: the convergence of MDM, IAM, and compliance under an AI-driven architecture.
Where Kandji excelled in simplicity for Apple fleets, Iru builds on that foundation to unify endpoint and identity management across platforms—without losing the Apple-first soul that made it successful.
Their message, “elegance through abstraction and automation as a force multiplier,” perfectly sums up this next stage. What Kandji did for configuration and compliance, Iru aims to do for the entire security stack.
Conclusion
Kandji’s evolution into Iru (EE-roo) isn’t a departure—it’s a graduation.
Admins can keep managing their Apple devices exactly as before while gradually exploring new AI and identity-driven capabilities at their own pace.
As Apple’s ecosystem becomes more declarative, intelligent, and identity-aware, Iru appears poised to grow alongside it.
Visit Iru’s official announcement and Meet Iru to learn more.
And until the channel is renamed in the Mac Admins Slack Community, you can visit #kandji for more conversation.
Responsible GenAI Use
This blog post was created with the use of the following Artificial Intelligence tools:
- Apple Intelligence – for summarization and combination of the Iru Press release, and comments from the MacAdmins Slack Community #kandji channel
- Grammarly – for grammar correction, and proofreading