Questions tagged [apple-configurator]
For questions about Apple Configurator, a macOS program which lets you manage a large number of iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Apple TV devices owned by your company, school or another organization.
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Apple Configurator 2 can't install or remove profiles after reinstall
After deleting Apple Configurator 2 from my Mac and installing it again from the App Store, I am unable to install new configuration profiles or remove any existing profiles on my supervised iOS ...
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VPN configuration via mobileconfig is not working
Having some problems with the following part of an XML mobileconfig file. I'm trying to set up an IKEv2 VPN with EAP for user authentication.
<dict>
<key>DNS</key>
<dict&...
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Update iPad 5th gen from 15.7.1 to 15.7.4 [duplicate]
For future debugging I want to keep one of our iPads 5th Gen (MP2F2FD/A) at a 15.7.x version, it currently has 15.7.1 installed.
With Apple Configurator 2 or via Finder there is only the "Newest&...
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How can I block the Twitter website on iPhone?
Question: How can I block the Twitter website on iPhone with Apple Configurator? I want to block Twitter in order to reduce my screen time. Configurator is an app for installing configuration profiles....
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Restoring firmware without Apple Configurator? (MacBook Pro 2019 13")
I have a MacBook Pro 13" 2019. It won't install any macOS version on it. Running an Ventura install disk gives the error: Software update required to run this disk. I have another MacBook, but it'...
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Is there a way I can transfer removed apps from app store from iPhone to Mac as IPA file?
I have an app installed on my iPhone which has now been removed from the app store. Is there a way I can transfer it from my iPhone to a Mac as a .ipa file? I remember some sort of way to do this with ...
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I am unable to remove profile in iPhone
I have tried all the things but I am unable to remove the profile from my iPhone. The web clip has no removable type. So if you have any solutions then please answer me as fast as possible.
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How to escape specifying Full Name while setting up an email account with a profile?
I am attempting to set up an email account using a configuration profile created with Apple Configurator 2. My goal is to avoid using User Display Name, so the raw source of a letter would begin with ...
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AMRestoreErrorDomain error 26 when restoring or reviving M1 macbook pro with apple configurator 2
I am trying to revive my m1 macbook pro after it started showing exclamation mark icon with restore url.
Now I am trying to revive it using my other intel-based macbook using apple configurator 2 but ...
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Attempting to use Internet Sharing for iOS Activation
I’m trying to configure iOS devices in mass. Unfortunately my team doesn’t have direct access to our company MDM, so enrollment through Configurator isn’t working.
I had the idea to use internet ...
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How do I get an app from my old phone onto a new phone without updating the app (via IPA file)?
Using an icloud backup will result in the newest version being loaded, so I think I need to make an IPA file of the app and use configurator to load it onto my new phone. However, I need an IPA of the ...
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Where to get logs of "system preferences" > "profile" importation?
I have created a VPN profile with Apple Configurator 2, I'm now trying to import it via System Preferences > Profiles, but I'm getting the unsuccessful message below without details. Where can I ...
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How can I modify the Home Screen layout from macOS?
Apple Configurator 2 can allegedly be used to modify the Home Screen layout on an iOS device from macOS. However it appears to provide no way to configure the major new feature of Home Screens: ...
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How to remove JAMF from an Apple Silicon Mac [duplicate]
I'm trying to remove JAMF completely from a MacBook Pro M1 and actually start afresh. I can successfully put it into DFU mode in Apple Configurator 2, and I've tried both Revive and Restore, but what ...
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Apple Configurator 2: Cannot skip "Written and Spoken Languages" in Setup
I am using Apple Configurator 2 in combination with MDM from MacOS Server to erase and prepare a supervized iPhone running iOS 14.2.
I can successfully run erase and prepare the device. My goal is to ...
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Creating backups of iOS app IPAs on Mac
I am trying to copy individual apps from my iPhone over to my Mac so I can restore them after a wipe through Apple Configurator 2. These apps are no longer available on the App Store (Infinity Blade ...
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How to enable Siri to Speak and write Tamil In Mac book and iPhone 7
I have downloaded a software linguist. This software is able to translate the in writing. Can Siri be linked to this software to read and write Tamil?
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ios/mobileconfig ikev2 ondemand via apple configurator 2
I am trying to use Apple Configurator 2 downloaded from AppStore, and I cannot find ondemand settings in the vpn section. Please help. I can manually add ondemand section to my plist and it works. If ...
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Unable to deploy Mobile Config for Active Sync on iOS 13.4.1
I'm trying to deploy a mobile configuration for a number of iPhones. The mobile configuration only includes PKCS12 for the client certificate authentication and the configuration of the MS Exchange ...
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Remove Default Apps with Configurator 2
I've been tasked with creating profiles and blueprints with Configurator 2 for deployment on company owned iPhones.
However, I'm hung up on one problem. I was told to remove some of the default apps,...
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Get battery health via Apple Configurator
I have 250 iPod touch, where I have to get the status of the battery health. Is there a way to get this via the Apple Configurator for multiple devices at once?
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How to view Failing Authentication Logs for a specific iOS Application
How do I view specific logs for a specific iOS Application? It is not a native iOS Application.
It is an iOS Application installed from an MDM solution. It is an iOS Application that allow the user ...
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Password validation text incorrectly displayed in unexpected language on macOS 10.15.1
I have created a new password profile from Apple Configurator 2 and applied that in macOS 10.15, Catalina.
Then I did a pwpolicy to require new password:
pwpolicy -a adminuser -u usertoforcechange -...
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Apple Configurator 2 won't save changes to home screen layout
iPhone 8 Plus, iOS 13.1
Despite applying the changes in the Home Screen Layout menu, the changes do not appear to take on the device itself. When I open the menu again to change the layout it simply ...
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Disable all iOS notifications
I have set up an old iPhone 5 for my grandmother (85) which I set up with Apple Configurator to be in single app mode for the phone only.
I had turned off all the notifications, and made sure that ...
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"Apple Watch Only" apps not showing on Apple Watch when using Configuration Profile on linked iPhone
The Breathe, Heart, Stocks, Walkie-Talkie, and Workout apps are not showing up on my Apple Watch.
I know this is because I have a configuration profile on my iPhone with an app whitelist only ...
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Apple Configurator 2 version and blueprints
If I upgrade from version 2.3 of the Apple configurator 2 to the newest version will my be blueprints disappear?
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Can't update apps from Apple Configurator 2 (apps are already up to date)
I attach an iPhone running iOS 12.2 to a mac running macOS 10.14.4 (Mojave) with 33 apps pending updates (as seen from App Store in the update tab in the iPhone). I choose the device, then "update" in ...
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what version of AppleConfigurator 2 is compatible with AppleTV 3rd gen?
I have a 3rd generation AppleTV and am trying to configure it with AppleConfigurator2. My version of AppleConfigurator2 (2.7.1) is unable to detect the device. What version of AppleConfigurator2 is ...
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LSCOLORS format
I want to configure my .bash_profile and I've seen this post about BSD based ls configuration:
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/apple-mac-osx-terminal-color-ls-output-option/
I just don't know what is ...
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Same IKEv2 .mobileconfig profile works on macOS, but fails on iOS
I have an IKEv2 VPN server, and run my own CA. Clients authenticate using certificates. I have prepared a .mobileconfig profile (using Apple Configurator) that sets up the IKEv2 configuration, and ...
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iOS - fully automate testing process with backups - is it possible?
The Story:
We have hundreds of devices running UI and unit tests. The tests are written using XCTest framework, and run on our applications, as well as system (Safari/Settings) and third party ones.
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Provisional Enrollment Failed. [MCCloudConfigErrorDomain - 0x80EF (33007)]
Trying to provision a brand new iPad with Apple Configurator 2. At some point our company will be deploying 2000 of these iPads, but I get various errors like the one listed in the title.
I have no ...
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Configure 3rd-party apps using MDM or Apple Configurator on iOS?
I am using MDM to configure e-mail accounts on iOS devices using Mail/Exchange ActiveSync payload. Is there a way to configure 3rd-party iOS apps like OneDrive and DropBox using MDM or Apple ...
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DNS Setup on a Per-SSID basis?
I manage a number of iOS devices. These devices are supervised via Apple Configurator. When they connect to a specific SSID, I want the devices to use the servers specified by DHCP (If needed, I can ...
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How to manage company Macs?
What is the "Apple" way of managing Macs in company environment? I've red about macOS server and Apple Remote Desktop which seems to share some management features. The later seems a bit dated, at ...
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Block Specific Apps on macOS
Is there a way to block a list of specific apps on macOS?
I have looked up solutions such as Cisdem, but there are some holes in the way it works that I don't like.
Unless you also block Activity ...
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Possible to preload apps in supervisor mode and prevent them from being uninstalled?
I don't have a Mac or a personal Ipad to experiment with. I am trying to prevent a user from removing certain apps (not all apps). Can I stop the user from removing individual apps on a supervised ...
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apple configurator 1.7 downgrade ios from 10 to 10 [duplicate]
I am using apple configurator 1.7.2. Accidentally someone upgrade IOS to version 11 as image for every no ipod touch. Is any way I can go back to version 10? I need it for run older application which ...
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iOS 11: How to change DNS settings for cellular/mobile data?
Is it possible to change DNS for cellular internet? How can it be done without a jailbreak?
I've tried Apple Configurator, but didn't find suitable settings.
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How do I restrict a novice user from installing configuration profiles on their devices?
I noticed some novice users installed some spam configuration profiles which installed some email inboxes on their iOS devices such as 'Daily Bible Verse' or 'WEATHER ALERTS' with a email address ...
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Apple Configurator 2 won't prepare
Using Apple Configurator 2. I connect an IPad and hit prepare. It says that the device has already been prepared.
I erase the device, it restarts and goes through all the steps for setup (even though ...
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Adding iOS 11 devices to DEP using Apple Configurator
Until now, only iOS devices purchased direct from an Apple sales channel could be added to the Device Enrollment Program (DEP). But at WWDC June 2017, Apple announced that any device running iOS 11 or ...
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How to supervise an unsupervised iOS device keeping the users Data?
I'm pretty new to the whole Apple story, so i'm not sure if this is possible at all.
The story is that we have unsupervised corporate-owned iPhones at work. Now we are about to enroll an MDM (...
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Trying to use a data-only SIM card in an iPhone 7 running iOS 10
So, I recently got an Android tablet (Samsung Tab E 8) from my carrier (Virgin Mobile in Canada) and it came with a nano sim card on a $15/month 3GB data plan. I’d way rather use this in my iPhone 7 ...
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iOS VPN On Demand with multiple VPNs
I have 2 VPNs that I have created on demand profiles for. One is for an OpenVPN server that connects when my iPad is on cellular and disconnects otherwise. The other one automatically connects only on ...
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Apple Configurator 2 - How to edit an installed Configuration Profile? [duplicate]
I wish to modify an existing Configuration Profile installed on an iPhone, but I do not have a disk copy of it, nor can I download it again from the source (no longer available). Using Apple ...
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Apple Profiles - Apple Configurator 2
I've been looking for hours now on how to edit a profile on Apple Configurator but to no luck. There are some similar responses, but none of them were of too much help. I am trying to edit a profile ...
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cfgutil no longer works via ssh after upgrading to Sierra
I use the cfgutil from Apple Configurator with iOS devices on an OSX host via SSH. After upgrading to Sierra, I get a NSCocoaErrorDomain message and it fails. It works fine at the terminal, however.
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AMRestoreErrorDomain error 14 when "restoring" iPad with Apple Configurator 2.
I've run into an issue provisioning an iPad with Apple Configurator 2. I was in the process of redeploying an iPad from a former employee to a new employee, and noticed that I couldn't find Safari on ...
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