Apple Platform Deployment
- Welcome
- Intro to Apple platform deployment
- What’s new
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- Declarative status reports
- Declarative app configuration
- Authentication credentials and identity asset declaration
- Background task management declarative
- Calendar declarative configuration
- Certificates declarative configuration
- Contacts declarative configuration
- Exchange declarative configuration
- Google Accounts declarative configuration
- LDAP declarative configuration
- Legacy interactive profile declarative configuration
- Legacy profile declarative configuration
- Mail declarative configuration
- Math and Calculator app declarative configuration
- Passcode declarative configuration
- Passkey Attestation declarative configuration
- Safari extensions management declarative configuration
- Screen Sharing declarative configuration
- Service configuration files declarative configuration
- Software Update declarative configuration
- Software Update settings declarative configuration
- Storage management declarative configuration
- Subscribed Calendars 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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Declarative app configuration for Apple devices
This declaration can be used to deploy the following apps to devices: App Store apps, Custom Apps, Unlisted Apps, and proprietary in-house apps. The app configuration supports the following:
Minimum supported operating system versions and channels: iOS 17.2, iPadOS 17.2, Shared iPad user, visionOS 2.4.
Requires supervision: No.
Supported enrollment methods: User Enrollment, Device Enrollment, Automated Device Enrollment.
Setting | Description | Required | |||||||||
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App Store ID | The App Store ID of the Managed App. Either App Store ID, bundle ID, or manifest URL needs to be set and are mutually exclusive. | No | |||||||||
Bundle ID | The bundle ID of the Managed App. Either App Store ID, bundle ID, or manifest URL needs to be set and are mutually exclusive. | No | |||||||||
Manifest URL | The manifest URL of the Managed App. Either App Store ID, bundle ID, or manifest URL needs to be set and are mutually exclusive. | No | |||||||||
Install behavior | Defines whether the app is required and gets installed automatically or if the user can decide about install and removal. | No | |||||||||
License | Indicates whether a device or user based volume purchasing license is used for the app. | No | |||||||||
Include in backup | Defines whether the app and its data are included in a backup. | No |
App attributes
In addition, the following attributes can be defined for each app.
Setting | Description | Required |
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Associated Domains | The associated domains to add to an app. | No |
Associated Domains Enable Direct Downloads | Allow claimed website association verification to be done at the domain. | No |
Cellular network slice | The data network name (DNN) or traffic category identifying a network slice provided by a carrier. | No |
Content filter UUID | The UUID of a content filter configuration to assign to the app. | No |
DNS proxy UUID | The UUID of a DNS proxy configuration to assign to the app. | No |
Relay UUID | The UUID of a network relay configuration to assign to the app. | No |
Tap to Pay on Lock Screen | Requires a user to unlock their device with Face ID, Touch ID, or a passcode after every transaction during which the device was handed over to a customer to enter their card PIN. | No |
VPN UUID | The UUID of an app-layer VPN configuration to assign to an app. | No |
Note: Each device management service developer implements these settings differently. To learn how authentication credential assets and identity assets are applied to your devices and users, consult your developer’s device management service documentation.