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
About Managed Apple Accounts
Overview
Organizations design, own, and manage Managed Apple Accounts specifically to help increase the productivity of employees, instructors, and students and provide the services users may need. These accounts are separate from personal (unmanaged) Apple Accounts users create for themselves. Your organization maintains this separation to help keep organizational data distinct from personal data with robust management controls.
To view the certifications Apple maintains in compliance with the ISO 27001 and 27018 standards for Managed Apple Accounts, see Apple internet services security certifications in Apple Platform Certifications.
How Managed Apple Accounts are created
You design Managed Apple Accounts to use a domain name your organization owns. You can then create accounts using the following methods:
Manually
Configure and turn on federated authentication with Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra ID, or an identity provider (IdP)
Sync using OpenID Connect (OIDC) with Google Workspace or Microsoft Entra ID global service (login.microsoftonline.com)
Sync using OpenID Connect (OIDC) or System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) with your IdP
Apple School Manager only: Import accounts from your Student Information System (SIS)
Apple School Manager only: Upload .csv files using the Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
Note: The term domain in the context of this document refers to an individual FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name). This means that (for example) melardclothing.com and accounts.melardclothing.com are considered two different domains and needs to be added and managed individually in Apple School Manager or Apple Business.
How Managed Apple Accounts are used
Like personal Apple Accounts, Managed Apple Accounts can be used to sign in on dedicated or shared Apple devices and to access specific Apple services—including Shared iPad, iCloud, and collaboration with Keynote, Numbers, Pages, Notes, and Reminders.
You assign a specific role to each Managed Apple Account. This role defines which tasks users can perform in Apple School Manager and Apple Business.
For more information, see:
Apple School Manager User Guide: Intro to roles and privileges
Apple Business User Guide: Intro to roles and permissions
What Managed Apple Accounts can and can’t access
Managed Apple Accounts provide access to many Apple technologies, apps, and services, including specific iCloud services, Continuity services between devices, education and business services, Apple Developer programs and services, and collaboration and communication services.
Managed Apple Accounts exclude access to specific iCloud services, some Apple Developer apps, media services, and store content.
For a complete list, see the following:
Apple School Manager User Guide: Service access with Managed Apple Accounts
Apple Business User Guide: Service access with Managed Apple Accounts