Unable to change 'Wired Accessories' setting on iPhone due to organization restrictions

After a chat with Apple support, the only solution was a Reset All ( Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset > Reset All Settings)

They said Apple is aware of the issue and are working on a fix to be implemented in an iOS update.

Talk to your IT department about the MDM policies they are pushing out.

Do you have a corporate Exchange email account set up on your phone? Either in the native mail app or Outlook for iOS?

If so, the administrators can enforce policies on your phone even without installing a management profile.

I do not have a profile anymore, but my last phone carrier used a messaging profile to route SMS and MMS text messages over the shared networks in my area. I don’t have that anymore. But I intercepted shortcuts still running behind the scenes, when my device got hot. Allowing all accessories means that if they can act like a computer and do malicious activity, they will.

I found that I could force the Wired Accessories, from Always Allow (grayed out by fraudulent administrator controls still lurking on my device), by re-enabling “Lockdown Mode” and restarting the iPhone. The new default is “Ask for New Input Accessories.”

Do not enable Allow when unlocked or you can’t go back to Ask for new devices, without disabling and re-enabling Lockdown.

I like Ask for everything new. Cables you buy online and chargers can all be suspicious, why else do they sell them so cheap.

No administrator profile should have control over this setting in a personal device, strongly question your third party cables and chargers/accessories. They likely injected a malicious code.

I cannot change mine from “always allow” either and do not have or ever had any organization associations. It us a brand new 17 that is my own device as transferred from last iPhone. Both have iOS26 running. I see now that phone is also locked on “always allow” and shows the “..organization…” message. The old phone has likewise always been my personal device never associated with organizations or profiles. There are no profiles on either phone.

This seems to be a problem beyond normal MDM profiles, I have seen other reports online that it could be a bug or it could even be hack.

Without any other information here I guess the next step is the Apple Store; at least before I go nuclear and install everything from scratch.

I tried that, and it did change to "Ask for New Input Accessories" but only until I turned lockdown mode off and restarted... now it's set back to "Always Allow" with no option to change it. >.<

I have same problem in my IPhone 15 pro max. I updated to 26.1 and it has same problem. No MDM or other apps are installed! What we have to do?

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It can be fixed. I just finished with Apple Support!

HerrJulian

Wie kann es behoben werden?

How can it be fixed?

Then provide some details about how they fixed it. What exactly did they do, or have you do?