Apple School Manager release notes
July 7, 2026
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Changed contact method for Claris Connect. See Get support.
December 2025
Apple School Manager now shows the physical MAC addresses for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Ethernet interfaces for organization-owned Mac computers. See View device information.
November 2025
Users with the role of Administrator can now add a shared payment method for Apps & Books in the Payments and Billing settings, allowing anyone in the organization with privileges to make purchases using that payment method, while still allowing additional payment methods for individual use. See Review app and book payment and billing information.
Users with the role of Administrator or Device Enrollment Manager can now see AppleCare coverage and warranty information for devices added to Apple School Manager. See View device information.
October 2025
Users with the role of Administrator can now go to iforgot.apple.com to reset their password. See Create or reset user passwords.
Users with the role of Administrator can manage permissions to allow password resets using iforgot.apple.com in the roles and privileges settings in Access Management. See Intro to roles and privileges.
Users with Managed Apple Accounts, except those with the role of Student, can now be invited to use TestFlight to beta test apps. See What can Managed Apple Accounts access.
September 2025
Users with the role of Administrator can now control whether users can sign in to their organization-owned devices with any Apple Account, or only sign in using a Managed Apple Account from the same organization. See Customize user access to apps and services.
July 2025
Users with the role of Administrator can now download a list of email addresses for unmanaged Apple Accounts used on their verified domains that have signed in to certain Apple web services. See Download a list of unmanaged Apple Accounts using your domain.
Apple School Manager now shows the physical MAC addresses for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth interfaces for organization-owned iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro devices. See Create an API account.
June 2025
Users with the role of Administrator now have the ability to create API accounts that applications can use to access their organization data and perform certain device management tasks. See Create an API account.
Users with the role of Administrator can now migrate eligible devices to a new device management service by setting an enrollment enforcement deadline. See Migrate devices to a new management service.
April 2025
Users with the role of Administrator now have the ability to manage the “Assign Devices” and “Add or Remove Devices” privileges for the Device Enrollment Manager role. See Device privileges.
January 2025
Apple School Manager now shows additional information about how a device was released. See Release devices.
December 2024
Added support for the ability to see IMEI and EID numbers from eligible cellular devices. See How to search.
Added support for verified domains to be configured as alternate service discovery for account-driven enrollments. See Account-driven enrollment methods with Apple devices in Apple Platform Deployment.
Users with the role of Administrator can use default device management service assignment to configure account-driven enrollment to different device management services per device type. Requires iOS 18.2, iPad OS 18.2, macOS 15.2, visionOS 2.2, or later. See Link to an external device management service.
Added support for managing user access to sync Image Playgrounds results and FaceTime call history. See Manage iCloud features and app access.
October 2024
Users with the role of Administrator can prevent new unmanaged Apple Accounts from being created on domains that have been verified by the organization. See Lock a domain.
Users with the role of Administrator can request that existing unmanaged Apple Accounts using an organization’s verified domain be transferred to a managed account owned by the organization or the email address associated with the account be changed to keep it personal. See Transfer Apple services when a user decides to keep their account as a personal Apple Account.
June 2024
Organizations can now turn off Activation Lock on devices they own. See Turn off Activation Lock.
Apple School Manager now offers more ways to import Student Information System (SIS) roster data, including support for additional SIS vendors and OneRoster CSV import, as well as new features to enhance synchronization. These enhancements use Claris Connect and include options to filter by schools and term, as well as prevent duplicate entries during data import. See Directory syncing.
March 2024
Added support for allowing instructors to create and use unmanaged nearby classes instead of Apple School Manager classes in Classroom in iPadOS 17.4 and macOS 14.4 or later. See Turn on user access to specific privacy and security features.
Added support for allowing Managed Apple Accounts to add student IDs or employee badges to Apple Wallet in iOS 17.4 or later. See Turn on user access to Apple Wallet.
January 2024
Added support for federating with custom identity providers (IdPs). See Use federated authentication with your identity provider.
December 2023
Added the ability for Users with the role of Administrator to enable access to the Apple Developer Program for teachers and staff. See What can Managed Apple Accounts access.
November 2023
Access Management for Apple Services is now available and allows organizations to control which Apple services and features users can access. See Service access with Managed Apple Accounts.
May 2023
Added support for connecting to Infinite Campus using OAuth 2.0. See Integrate Apple School Manager with your Student Information System (SIS).
March 2023
Added support for organizational data sharing to sync classes and users with the role of student to educational apps. See Use organizational data sharing.
October 2022
Added support for Sign in with Apple at Work & School. See Use Sign in with Apple.
Added support for enabling beta features. See Participate in beta features.
May 2022
Added support for federated authentication with Google Workspace. See Use federated authentication with Google Workspace.
Updated user interface for Preferences, Users, and Devices. See Edit preferences.
October 2021
Users with the role of Administrator, Site Manager, or People Manager can now approve or deny Managed Apple Accounts requested by instructors in the Schoolwork app. See Manage user requests from Schoolwork.
Users with the role of Administrator can allow Improving Schoolwork which allows Apple to collect data, in a nonpersonally identifiable way, to improve the Schoolwork app. See Improve Schoolwork.
August 2021
Added the ability to sync Student Information System (SIS) data 30 days before the start of a term, if your SIS supports this option. See Integrate Apple School Manager with your Student Information System (SIS).
August 2020
Added support for System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM). To use SCIM, see Use federated authentication with your identity provider.
Updated user interface for managing devices, including improved filtering and bulk device management. See Intro to device management services.
June 2020
Added support for two new privileges—Administer AppleSeed for IT and Participate in AppleSeed for IT—to provide access to the AppleSeed for IT beta testing portal. See Basic privileges.
May 2020
Users with the role of Administrator can configure collaboration to automatically accept sharing between users in the same organization. By default, this setting is disabled for all files shared by Students. See Manage iCloud features and app access.
April 2020
Users whose role has privileges to manage federated authentication can now remove federated domains. See Remove a domain.
March 2020
New domains added to Apple School Manager need to be verified before Managed Apple Accounts can be created using that domain. See Verify a domain.
Added support for Infinite Campus OneRoster v1.1. See Supported SISs.
February 2020
Custom Apps can now be purchased in Apple School Manager. See Learn about Custom Apps.
September 2019
Added support for User Account Lookup (turned on by default), which allows users to search for the contact information of other users and groups in your organization. See User Account Lookup.
Added support to set nicknames for classes. See Manually create a class.
Added support to choose whom users can share with using Keynote, Pages, and Numbers documents, Notes, Reminders, and other files in iCloud Drive. See Manage iCloud features and app access.
June 2019
Apple School Manager can now be used on iPad. See What browsers are supported.
March 2019
Added support for federated authentication with Microsoft Entra ID. See Use federated authentication with Microsoft Entra ID.
February 2019
The device management services section is now located in the Settings tab. See Intro to device management services.
Added support to configure default device assignment. See Set the default device assignment.
January 2019
By default, users with the role of Instructor can now create, edit, and delete classes. See Manually create a class.
December 2018
Manually created classes without Course information will now sync to a device management service. See Manually create a class.
tvOS apps are now available in Apps and Books. See Intro to apps and books licenses.
September 2018
Added support for federating with custom identity providers (IdPs). See Use federated authentication with your identity provider.
June 2018
Added support to edit the Class Name field for classes created manually or imported from SIS or SFTP. See Integrate Apple School Manager with your Student Information System (SIS).
March 2018
All Managed Apple Accounts now have 200GB of iCloud storage. See Additional Managed Apple Account features for instructors and students.
January 2018
Apps and Books in Apple School Manager now supports over 500 locations. See Intro to apps and books licenses.
Apps and Books in Apple School Manager includes several performance improvements for organizations that have a large number of locations, purchasers, or licenses.
Improved App Product Review pages in Apps and Books in Apple School Manager.
You can now submit feedback about Apple School Manager. From the top right corner, click your name, then select Provide Feedback from the menu.
November 2017
Added support to make purchases and transfer licenses. See Intro to apps and books licenses.
September 2017
A device management service can now be set as default based on device type. See Set the default device assignment.
When you create a .csv file with sign-in information for accounts, the file now contains Person Number and Person ID columns. See Upload Student Information System data.
Added support to see the classes that a user with the role of Instructor or Student is in on the Accounts page. See Intro to users.
August 2017
A device management service class roster API now includes email address and SIS username for a given Apple School Manager user. See Manually create a class.
Apple School Manager now names the classes you manually create with a combination of the Class Number, Course Name, and Course Number. See Manually create a class.
Temporary passwords are now valid for 90 days. See Create or reset user passwords.
June 2017
When you create sign-ins for users with the role of Student, you can now set the passcode to a specific value. See Set password policies.
Added support to migrate VPP-only accounts into your Apple School Manager, even if you forgot to include them in your initial migration to Apple School Manager. See Migrate content tokens.
Users with the role of Administrator can now set the language and time zone that will be used in emails sent from Apple School Manager. See Change the time zone and language.
Added support to recreate previously deleted locations with the same location_id. See Use the Apple Locations template.
May 2017
New streamlined design and user interface.
Improved search and filtering for accounts and classes.
Password reset emails are now localized.
Added support for PowerSchool 9.0 SIS integration. See Supported SISs.
Introduced Activity view, which logs all actions including those that run in the background. See View activity.
Increase support for up to five Administrator accounts. See Administrators.
Added the ability to delete unused and inactive accounts. See User status.
Added support to apply Managed Apple Account format changes to existing users. See Edit Managed Apple Account information for a single user or Edit Managed Apple Account information for multiple users.
The Managed Apple Account format can now include a user’s SIS username. See Intro to Managed Apple Accounts.
March 2017
Added support to assign up to 15 locations to a student or staff member, and up to 15 instructors to a class, when using SFTP to create users and classes. See Upload Student Information System data.
Infinite Campus SIS integration will now support multiple users withe the role of Instructor per class. See Integrate Apple School Manager with your Student Information System (SIS).
January 2017
Users can view and update their Managed Apple Account settings by signing in to the Apple Account webpage or in iCloud Settings on Mac, iPhone, or iPad.
December 2016
When you create users with SFTP, you can now set the default password policy for students in the password_policy field of the Students .csv file. See Use the Apple Students template.
Improved reliability and error reporting for SIS and SFTP connections.
November 2016
You no longer need a unique email address associated with a Managed Apple Account. You can use an email address that’s already associated with an existing Managed Apple Account. See Intro to Managed Apple Accounts.
Users with the role of Administrator, any Manager, and Instructors can change their personal information. To edit the account information, select your name in the upper right corner, then choose My Profile. See Edit your user account.
Users with the role of Student won’t need to enter an additional six-digit code when they sign in with their Managed Apple Account on a Mac that belongs to the school.
Users with the role of Administrator or any Manager can redownload SFTP templates from the Location information tab. See Upload Student Information System data.
Added support to link your iTunes U Public Site with Apple School Manager using the new iTunes U tab.
October 2016
When you create users with SFTP, you can now include the sis_username. See Template information for importing data.
When you create classes with SFTP, you can now specify up to three users with the role of Instructor. See Use the Apple Classes template.
When you use SFTP, you can now upload semicolon-delimited .csv files. See Upload Student Information System data.
Updated template files for SFTP uploads now contain more example data. See Upload Student Information System data.
September 2016
Added support to create a class using SFTP or your SIS with no users with the role of Instructor attached to it. If there aren’t any users with the role of Instructor, users with the role of Student need to be attached to that class. There can’t be a class without users with the roles of Instructor and Student. See Use the Apple Classes template.
Users with the role of Student created using SFTP now inherit the default password policy for the location they’re assigned to. See Use the Apple Students template. This feature was updated in December 2016.
Resolved issues with saving changes to your location name.
Apple School Manager now provides a list of which users were created without an associated email address.
Locations can now be deleted if no staff, students, and classes are attached to them.
Within the Location information tab, users with the role of Administrator, Site Manager, People Manager, or any Manager at the initial location can now see a history of Student accounts that have been inspected. See Inspect a user account.
The SFTP Setup Assistant displays an improved estimate of time to create Managed Apple Accounts. See Upload Student Information System data.
Improved reporting of SFTP connection errors.
When you email user names and passwords in bulk, all recipients successfully receive their credentials.
August 2016
Added support for Infinite Campus version 1629 or later. See Supported SISs.
Managed Apple Accounts can now be generated by uploading .csv files using SFTP. This replaced manual uploads in Apple School Manager. See Upload Student Information System data.
Added new .csv file templates based on common SIS export options. See Template information for importing data.
SFTP connection status is now indicated in Apple School Manager.
Additional options to customize Managed Apple Account formats by adding separators or text between tokens. See Upload Student Information System data.
Added support for organizations with more than 50,000 Managed Apple Accounts. See Intro to Managed Apple Accounts.
Users with the role of Administrator or any Manager can now reset the verification phone numbers for the users they manage. See Reset a verification phone number.
“New” and “Active” badges in Apple School Manager now help identify users who have not yet signed in with their Managed Apple Account. See User status.
Improvements to the Roles user interface to clarify account privileges. See Intro to roles and privileges.