Intro to Apple Configurator on Mac
Apple Configurator 2 makes it easy to deploy iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Apple TV devices in your school or business.
Configure large numbers of devices
Apple Configurator 2 features a flexible, device-centric design that enables you to quickly and easily configure one or dozens of iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and iPod touch devices connected to your Mac through USB. Simply select a single device—or many at once—and perform an action. With Apple Configurator 2, you’re able to update software, install apps and configuration profiles, rename and change wallpaper on devices, export device information and documents, and much more.
Apple Configurator 2 also includes a window that displays information for devices—such as iOS version, serial number, hardware IDs and addresses, available capacity, and its console log.
Customize or automate your device configuration
Apple Configurator 2 automates MDM enrollment to distribute apps seamlessly from the App Store. It does this by integrating with Apple School Manager and Apple Business Manager. The Prepare Assistant makes it easy to supervise and configure a cart of iPads for the classroom or quickly enroll a large number of devices in your MDM solution for ongoing management. The built-in configuration profile editor supports creating and editing profiles with the latest iOS and Apple TV settings.
If you’re configuring devices in an environment where consistency is critical, use Blueprints in Apple Configurator 2 to create a custom configuration for your devices, one that can be applied with one click. A Blueprint is a template device to which you add configuration profiles and apps and perform actions, just as you would do for a connected physical device.
You can also fully automate Apple Configurator 2 and integrate its capabilities into your existing device management workflows using the included command-line tool, AppleScript scripting library, or Automator Actions.
Support for iCloud Drive enables you to keep your configuration profiles and other settings consistent across multiple Apple Configurator 2 computers.
Here’s how you use Apple Configurator 2 to configure and deploy devices:
Create Blueprints. Blueprints let you record actions that can be applied to actual devices. You add configuration profiles and apps to Blueprints, just as you would add them to a physical device. You can prepare a Blueprint so that it has the mobile device management (MDM) information and supervision identity attached. You can also add specific actions to a Blueprint, such as putting the device into Single App Mode. After you have the Blueprint the way you want, you can apply it to devices. See Intro to Blueprints in Apple Configurator on Mac.
Create configuration profiles. You can change device settings, letting users automatically connect to Wi-Fi networks, preconfigure mail and Microsoft Exchange settings, and more. See Mobile device management settings.
Prepare devices. You first configure one device and then deploy that configuration to many devices at once. Preparing devices is a great deployment option for enterprise organizations and schools that provide devices to employees or students for their day-to-day use. You can reuse devices the organization already owns, or you can begin with new ones. See Intro to preparing devices in Apple Configurator on Mac.