Apple Platform Deployment
- Welcome
- Intro to Apple Platform Deployment
- What’s new
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- Declarative status reports
- Declarative app configuration
- Accessibility declarative configuration
- Apple Intelligence declarative configuration
- App settings configuration
- Audio accessory declarative configuration
- Authentication credentials and identity asset declaration
- Background task management declarative
- Calendar declarative configuration
- Certificates declarative configuration
- Contacts declarative configuration
- Content caching declarative configuration
- DNS settings declarative configuration
- DNS proxy declarative configuration
- Exchange declarative configuration
- Extensible SSO declarative configuration
- External intelligence declarative configuration
- Google Accounts declarative configuration
- Keyboard declarative configuration
- LDAP declarative configuration
- Legacy interactive profile declarative configuration
- Legacy profile declarative configuration
- Mail declarative configuration
- Math and Calculator app declarative configuration
- Managed Migration Assistant declarative configuration
- Network relay declarative configuration
- Packages declarative configuration
- Passcode declarative configuration
- Passkey Attestation declarative configuration
- Safari bookmarks declarative configuration
- Safari browsing management declarative configuration
- Safari extensions management declarative configuration
- Screen Sharing declarative configuration
- Service configuration files declarative configuration
- Siri declarative configuration
- Software Update declarative configuration
- Software Update settings declarative configuration
- Storage management declarative configuration
- Subscribed Calendars declarative configuration
- Web content filter plugin declarative configuration
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- Accessibility payload settings
- Active Directory Certificate payload settings
- AirPlay payload settings
- AirPlay Security payload settings
- AirPrint payload settings
- App Lock payload settings
- Associated Domains payload settings
- Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) payload settings
- Autonomous Single App Mode payload settings
- Calendar payload settings
- Cellular payload settings
- Cellular Private Network payload settings
- Certificate Preference payload settings
- Certificate Revocation payload settings
- Certificate Transparency payload settings
- Certificates payload settings
- Conference Room Display payload settings
- Contacts payload settings
- Content Caching payload settings
- Directory Service payload settings
- DNS Proxy payload settings
- DNS Settings payload settings
- Dock payload settings
- Domains payload settings
- Energy Saver payload settings
- Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) payload settings
- Exchange Web Services (EWS) payload settings
- Extensible Single Sign-on payload settings
- Extensible Single Sign-on Kerberos payload settings
- Extensions payload settings
- FileVault payload settings
- Finder payload settings
- Firewall payload settings
- Fonts payload settings
- Global HTTP Proxy payload settings
- Google Accounts payload settings
- Home Screen Layout payload settings
- Identification payload settings
- Identity Preference payload settings
- Kernel Extension Policy payload settings
- LDAP payload settings
- Lights Out Management payload settings
- Lock Screen Message payload settings
- Login Window payload settings
- Managed Login Items payload settings
- Mail payload settings
- Network Usage Rules payload settings
- Notifications payload settings
- Parental Controls payload settings
- Passcode payload settings
- Printing payload settings
- Privacy Preferences Policy Control payload settings
- Relay payload settings
- SCEP payload settings
- Security payload settings
- Setup Assistant payload settings
- Single Sign-on payload settings
- Smart Card payload settings
- Subscribed Calendars payload settings
- System Extensions payload settings
- System Migration payload settings
- Time Machine payload settings
- TV Remote payload settings
- Web Clips payload settings
- Web Content Filter payload settings
- Xsan payload settings
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- Glossary
- Document revision history
- Copyright and trademarks
Device management commands for Apple devices
A device management service can send commands to manage enrolled Apple devices.
Note: Not all commands are available in all device management services. To learn which device management commands are available for your devices, consult your developer’s device management service documentation.
Device management command | Minimum supported operating system versions |
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Accessibility settings | iOS iPadOS |
Allow Activation Lock | iOS (Supervised) iPadOS (Supervised) macOS (Supervised Mac computers with Apple silicon and the Apple T2 Security Chip) tvOS (Supervised) |
Allow idle reboot | iOS 18.4 iPadOS 18.4 Off by default on supervised devices. |
Apply a redemption code | iOS iPadOS |
Change local device-management-created administrator password | macOS |
Clear Activation Lock | iOS (Supervised) iPadOS (Supervised) macOS (Supervised Mac computers with Apple silicon and the Apple T2 Security Chip) |
Clear passcode | iOS iPadOS visionOS 1.1 Note: When the passcode is cleared, it isn’t added to the passcode history and therefore it can be used again. |
Clear the Bypass Code for Activation Lock | iOS (Supervised) iPadOS (Supervised) macOS (Supervised Mac computers with Apple silicon and the Apple T2 Security Chip) visionOS 2.0 |
Clear the Screen Time/Restrictions passcode | iOS iPadOS |
Configure settings | For more information, see Device management command settings options list. |
Create and configure a local administrator account | macOS |
Delete user | macOS (Supervised Mac computers with Apple silicon and the Apple T2 Security Chip) Shared iPad |
Erase a device | iOS iPadOS macOS tvOS visionOS 1.1 Note: The Return to Service option requires iOS 17, iPadOS 17, or later. For more information, see Use Return to Service. |
Get eSIM from carrier | iOS iPadOS For more information, see RefreshCellularPlansCommand in Apple Developer documentation. |
Install a book | iOS iPadOS |
Install a profile | iOS iPadOS Shared iPad macOS tvOS visionOS 1.1 |
Install a provisioning profile | iOS iPadOS Shared iPad macOS tvOS visionOS 1.1 |
Install an app | iOS iPadOS Shared iPad macOS tvOS visionOS 1.1 Note: Mac apps purchased from Apple School Manager or Apple Business can be installed regardless of whether a user is signed in. |
Install proprietary in-house app | macOS |
List user accounts | macOS Shared iPad |
Lock device | iOS iPadOS macOS |
Log out user | Shared iPad |
Managed Apple Account default domains | iPadOS 16.1 Shared iPad |
Online authentication grace period | iPadOS 16.1 Shared iPad |
Play Lost Mode sound | iOS (Supervised) iPadOS (Supervised) |
Release a device awaiting configuration | iOS iPadOS macOS Shared iPad tvOS |
Remove a profile | iOS iPadOS Shared iPad macOS tvOS visionOS 1.1 |
Remove a provisioning profile | iOS iPadOS Shared iPad macOS tvOS visionOS 1.1 |
Remove books | iOS iPadOS |
Remove managed apps | iOS iPadOS macOS tvOS visionOS 1.1 |
Request AirPlay mirroring | iOS iPadOS macOS |
Restart device | iOS (Supervised) iPadOS (Supervised) macOS tvOS (Supervised) visionOS 2.0 |
Rotate the FileVault key | macOS |
Set Firmware password | macOS |
Set organization info: long name, short name, physical address, phone number, email address, and unique identifier | iOS iPadOS macOS tvOS visionOS 1.1 |
Set Recovery Lock | macOS |
Shut down device | iOS (Supervised) iPadOS (Supervised) macOS Shared iPad visionOS 2.0 |
Start and cancel AppleCare log collection | iOS (Supervised) iPadOS (Supervised) macOS (Supervised) tvOS (Supervised) |
Stop AirPlay mirroring | iOS iPadOS |
Turn off Lost Mode | iOS (Supervised) iPadOS (Supervised) |
Turn off Remote Desktop | macOS |
Turn on Lost Mode | iOS (Supervised) iPadOS (Supervised) |
Turn on Remote Desktop | macOS |
Unlock a user account | macOS |