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Control Whether the Organization Name Is Shown

Stop the Managed Google Play organization name appearing on the lock screen and in Settings of your managed Android Devices.

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TL;DR

You can't rename the organization name shown on Devices, but you can hide it from the Policy. It applies on the next sync.

Devices that were showing nothing suddenly display your organization's name on the lock screen and in Settings, without anyone changing a Policy. That is Google's doing: the default for the enterpriseDisplayNameVisibility setting is now visible, so any Workspace that never configured it inherits the new behavior.

Where the name comes from

It is the enterprise display name of your Managed Google Play organization, fixed when the Android Enterprise account was bound to Applivery.

Warning

It cannot be renamed. The only way to change the text would be unbinding the Android Enterprise account and binding it again, which forces you to re-enroll every Device in the fleet. In practice that is not a rename, it is a migration.

Hiding it

What you can do is stop it from being shown. The Policy exposes the enterprise name visibility setting, which maps to Android's enterpriseDisplayNameVisibility:

Value

Effect

ENTERPRISE_DISPLAY_NAME_VISIBLE

The organization name is shown on the Device. This is now Google's default.

ENTERPRISE_DISPLAY_NAME_HIDDEN

The organization name is not shown.

enterprise display name visibility

Set it to hidden in the Policy, and it applies on the Device's next sync. There is no reset, no re-enrollment, and no user interaction involved.

Key Takeaways

  • The name comes from the Managed Google Play enterprise display name.
  • Google's default is now visible, which is why it started appearing.
  • It cannot be renamed without re-enrolling the whole fleet.
  • It can be hidden from the Policy, applying on the next sync.

Google changed the default for `enterpriseDisplayNameVisibility` to visible. Workspaces that never touched the setting inherit the new default.

It is the enterprise display name of your Managed Google Play organization, set when the Android Enterprise account was bound.

No. The only route would be unbinding and binding again, which would force you to re-enroll the whole fleet.

Yes. Set the enterprise name visibility to hidden in the Policy. It applies on the next sync, with no reset and no re-enrollment.

No. It is a Policy setting, so it reaches Devices on their next sync like any other.

On the lock screen of company-owned Devices, and in Settings.

`enterpriseDisplayNameVisibility`, with the values `ENTERPRISE_DISPLAY_NAME_VISIBLE` and `ENTERPRISE_DISPLAY_NAME_HIDDEN`.

The setting targets the enterprise name shown on the Device, such as the lock screen message on company-owned Devices.

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Last updated: September 11, 2026