Apple Platform Deployment
- Welcome
- Intro to Apple Platform Deployment
- Whats New for IT at WWDC26
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Plan the deployment
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Intro to device management
- Declarative device management
- Device management
- About device supervision
- Choose a deployment model
- Device enrolment methods
- Deploy Apple TV
- Deploy Apple Vision Pro
- Deploy Apple Watch
- Deploy shared devices
- Choose a device management service
- Device management migration
- Back up and restore managed devices
- Use standards-based services
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Intro to device management
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Prepare your environment
- Deploy devices with Apple School Manager or Apple Business
- Use Apple Configurator
- Configure your network for device management
- Configure devices to work with APNs
- Configure devices with mobile data connections
- Prepare your Wi-Fi networks
- Speed up downloads
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Use identity services
- Intro to Apple identity services
- Extensible Single Sign-on on Apple devices
- Integrate Apple devices with Microsoft services
- About Managed Apple Accounts
- Review the setup process
- Device management configuration options
- Manage software updates
- Distribute content
- Integrate with networks
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Ensure device security
- Intro to device management security
- Background Security Improvements
- Lock and locate devices
- Erase devices
- Activation Lock
- Manage accessory access
- Enforce password policies
- Use persistent tokens
- Use built-in network security features
- Managed Device Attestation
- Manage certificates
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Smart card integration
- Intro to smart card integration
- Smart card support on iPhone and iPad
- Smart card support on Mac
- macOS system security
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Device management settings
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Declarative configurations and status reports
- 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
- Maths and Calculator app declarative configuration
- Managed Migration Assistant declarative configuration
- Passcode declarative configuration
- Passkey Attestation declarative configuration
- Safari browsing management 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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Device management lists
- Device management service enrolment information
- Device management payload lists
- Device management restriction lists
- Device management command lists
- Device management query lists
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Device management payload settings
- 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
- Mobile payload settings
- Mobile 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
- Fonts 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 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 specifics
- TV Remote payload settings
- VPN device management settings
- Web Clips payload settings
- Web Content Filter payload settings
- LDAP payload settings
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Declarative configurations and status reports
- Additional resources
- Glossary
- Document revision history
- Copyright and trademarks
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Deploy Apple Watch
If an Apple Watch with watchOS 10 or later is paired with an iPhone with iOS 17 or later, you can enrol it in a device management service. In this way, the watch supports use cases that not only improve the users productivity, but also support their wellness and offer them extra safety benefits.
For more information, see the WWDC23 video Meet device management for Apple Watch.
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Enable device management service
To enable the enrolment, the declarative configuration com.apple.configuration.watch.enrollment needs to be applied to a supervised and managed iPhone. After the configuration is applied, any Apple Watch with watchOS 10 can be enrolled in device management when paired. The user can cancel and opt out of management by terminating the pairing flow. If an Apple Watch is already paired, it needs to be removed and paired with the iPhone again to be enrolled.
When the Apple Watch successfully enrols in a device management service (like the iPhone its paired with), its supervised. The device management service can then perform actions like configuring settings, retrieving device information, clearing the passcode, and locking or erasing the Apple Watch.
Install, remove and update Apple Watch apps using device management commands
You can install, remove and update App Store apps, Custom Apps and proprietary in-house apps using existing device management commands on Apple Watch. A device management service can also use the bundle ID of apps that can run on Apple Watch as part of app installation, configuration and removal commands.
Apple Watch supports the following types of apps:
Paired apps: Apps that share data between itself and its paired iPhone app, but the Apple Watch app can function on its own in the absence of the iPhone app.
Dependent apps: Apps that require the iPhone companion app to be functional.
Standalone apps: Apps that exist only on Apple Watch and have no iPhone companion.
Paired and dependent apps need to be managed together across both devices. When installing paired and dependent apps, the app should be installed and managed on the iPhone first, and then the Apple Watch app can be installed.
Note: During this process, the iPhone needs to be within range of the Apple Watch.
Updating and removing paired and dependent apps needs to be done individually for each device.
To install proprietary in-house apps that dont have an iPhone version, the following steps need to be completed:
1. Change the.ipa suffix to .zip and uncompress the archive.
2. Locate the Apple Watch .app file inside the uncompressed directory, then move it to a directory named Payload.
3. Compress the payload directory and rename the .zip file AppName.ipa.
Note: If the .ipa file created by Xcode is left wrapped in an empty iPhone app wrapper, the installation fails.
Unenrol Apple Watch from a device management service
You can unenrol Apple Watch from the device management service either manually or by using device management commands independently from the host iPhone. If you unenrol the host iPhone from the service, you also unenrol the paired Apple Watch. Unenrolling causes the Apple Watch to unpair, reset and erase all content and settings.