Sign up for Apple School Manager
Overview
Sign your organization up for Apple School Manager by creating an initial user account with the role of Administrator and entering some information about your organization.
After you sign up, Apple recommends verifying your organization as soon as possible to avoid your organization’s data from being deleted. Verification can take multiple business days depending on application volume and, if necessary, whether Apple can reach your provided contact. If your organization isn’t approved during the verification window, your organization, data, and Managed Apple Accounts will be deleted.
Create a new organization
Go to https://school.apple.com/.
Select Sign up now.
Enter and review the following organization information:
Your country or region
Your organization’s legal name
Address information, city, and zip code
Phone number
Website URL
Important: Apple uses this domain to prepopulate Managed Apple Accounts. However, if your organization’s website URL is different from your organization registered domain name, you can change it to your organization registered domain name before you create and assign Managed Apple Accounts to other users of Apple School Manager. If your organization doesn’t have a website, Apple School Manager uses your provided organization name to prepopulate Managed Apple Accounts.
Organization type (K–12 or higher education)
Time zone and language
Enter and review your information:
First and last name of the individual who signs up on behalf of the organization
Note: This needs to be a legal, human name. First and last names such as “IT Coordinator” or “Apple Deployment” are returned to you to correct the information.
A valid and active work email address that isn’t associated with an App Store or iCloud account, and that hasn’t been used as an Apple Account for any other Apple service or website
See Initial Administrator account email address requirements.
Role/Job title
Enter and review the verification contact information.
Examples include your superintendent, principal, or treasurer. Apple contacts your verification contact to confirm your organization.
Name
Work email address
Role/Job title
Select Continue, review the information carefully, then select Submit.
Check your email for a message from Apple School Manager with the subject line, Your enrollment is in review.
During the review process, AppleCare may reach out to verify your submitted information. Make sure that any filters allow mail from all apple.com domains. Return any missed phone calls quickly so the review process can proceed smoothly.
Confirm enrollment and grant administrator access
After Apple speaks with your verification contact and confirms your information, that contact receives a mail message from Apple School Manager with the subject line Thank you for verifying your organization. The contact can then complete the following task.
Open the mail message from Apple School Manager with the subject line Thank you for verifying your organization.
Review the message and choose one of the following:
Select the “Confirm [name of person]” button to let that person be an administrator of Apple School Manager.
This is the name of the person who initially enrolled in Apple School Manager.
If you don’t want this person to be an administrator, select the “choose someone else” link, enter another person’s information, then select Submit.
Your verification contact also needs to check the box indicating that you approve this person to accept responsibility for signing the Apple School Manager terms and conditions on behalf of your organization.
After this task is complete, the person who was selected to be the administrator receives a mail message from Apple School Manager with the subject line Enrollment Complete.
Complete the enrollment process
After your verification contact approves you, you receive a mail message letting you know your enrollment is approved. You can then create your own Managed Apple Account and approve all the terms and conditions.
Open the mail message from Apple School Manager with the subject line Enrollment Complete.
Select Get Started in the message to open Safari or your default browser. To view a list of supported browsers, see Program requirements.
Enter an email address for you to use as your Managed Apple Account.
Important: You can use your work email address if you haven’t used it as an Apple Account before with an App Store or iCloud account, or any other Apple services or websites. This email address becomes your administrator Managed Apple Account.
Enter a secure password, then confirm it.
Confirm your name, then enter your date of birth.
Enter your SMS-enabled cell phone number, then select how you would like to obtain secondary verification.
Select Submit.
Note: You need to verify both your email address and your phone number.
Select the link in the mail message you received to verify your email address.
Enter the SMS verification code you received on your phone, then select Verify.
Accept the terms and conditions. You need to accept all terms and conditions in order to proceed.
Immediately create at least one additional user with the role of Administrator. See Add administrators.