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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Always-on VPN declarative configuration for Apple devices
Use the Always-on VPN configuration to route all of a device’s IP traffic through an IKEv2 VPN tunnel that stays connected. Always-on VPN gives your organization control over device traffic by tunneling all data to your servers, and it applies to the whole device.
The Always-on VPN configuration supports the following:
Minimum supported operating system versions and channels: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, Shared iPad device, visionOS 27.
Requires supervision: No.
Supported enrollment methods: Device Enrollment, Automated Device Enrollment.
Always-on VPN settings
Setting | Description | Required | |||||||||
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Visible name | The name of the VPN connection that the operating system displays on the device. | Yes | |||||||||
UI toggle enabled | If turned on, allows the user to turn off the VPN configuration. | No | |||||||||
Tunnel configurations | A list of tunnel configurations. Each item is described in the Tunnel configurations settings. | Yes | |||||||||
Service exceptions | A list of service exceptions. Each item specifies service name and action. | No | |||||||||
Application exceptions | A list of apps whose connections occur outside the VPN. Each item specifies bundle identifier and a list of limit to protocols. | No | |||||||||
Provider details | Specifies details about the provider. See the provider details table. | No | |||||||||
Allow captive web sheet | If turned on, allows traffic from Captive Web Sheet outside the VPN tunnel. | No | |||||||||
Allow all captive network plugins | If turned on, allows traffic from all captive networking apps outside the VPN tunnel to perform captive network handling. | No | |||||||||
Allowed captive network plugins | The list of captive networking apps whose traffic is allowed outside the VPN tunnel, to perform captive network handling. Used only when Allow all captive network plugins is turned off. Each item specifies bundle identifier. | No | |||||||||
Tunnel configurations settings
Setting | Description | Required |
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IKEv2 configuration | The tunnel uses an IKEv2 configuration. For these settings, see the IKEv2 VPN page. | No |
Interfaces | The interfaces (cellular or Wi-Fi) to apply this configuration to. | No |
Protocol type | The type of connection, which needs to be IKEv2. | Yes |
Note: Not all configurations and their settings are available in all device management services. Each device management service developer implements these settings differently. To learn which settings are available for your devices, consult your developer’s device management service documentation.