Apple Platform Deployment
- Welcome
- Intro to Apple platform deployment
- What’s new
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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
- 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
- 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
- Set-up 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
- 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
- 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
- Glossary
- Document revision history
- Copyright
Configure devices with Apple Configurator for Mac
Apple Configurator for Mac makes it easy to deploy iPhone, iPad and Apple TV devices in your organisation. Select a single device — or many at once — and then perform a Shortcut or action.
Apple Configurator for Mac is a free app, available from the App Store. You can use it to configure large numbers of devices connected to your Mac through USB (or connected wirelessly to an Apple TV). You can enrol devices, and buy content, with Apple Configurator, so you get the settings, apps and data you want for your students, employees or customers.
Automate Apple Configurator processes
If you want to write shell scripts and automate specific processes, you can install the Apple Configurator command-line tool cfgutil. The command-line tool is then added to Apple Configurator and a symbolic link is placed in /usr/local/bin/. After you install the command-line tool, see the cfgutil man page.
You can also use Shortcuts with Apple Configurator 2.17 or later to create workflows to uniformly and efficiently configure large numbers of iPhone and iPad devices. You can then automate shortcuts based on devices being attached, detached and more.
For more information, see the following in the Apple Configurator for Mac User Guide:
Activate devices without an internet connection
You can use Apple Configurator to activate iPhone, iPad and Apple TV devices that have no internet connection. To do this, when you’re setting up the devices, just make sure they’re connected to a host Mac that’s connected to the internet. Administrators can restore, activate and prepare devices with their necessary configuration including Apps, Profiles and Documents without ever needing to connect to either Wi-Fi or mobile data networks. This feature doesn’t allow an administrator to bypass any existing Activation Lock requirements normally required during non-tethered activation.