Apple Configurator 2
By Apple
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Description
Apple Configurator 2 makes it easy to deploy iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Apple TV devices in your school or business.
Use Apple Configurator 2 to quickly configure large numbers of devices connected to your Mac via USB with the settings, apps, and data you specify for your students, employees, or customers.
Rebuilt from the ground up, Apple Configurator 2 features a flexible, device-centric design that enables you to configure one or dozens of devices quickly and easily. 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. You can also inspect any device to see details like serial number and hardware addresses, which apps and profiles are installed, and its console log.
Apple Configurator 2 integrates with the Device Enrollment Program to automate MDM enrollment as well as the Volume Purchase Program to seamlessly distribute apps from the App Store. The all-new 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 server for ongoing management. The built-in configuration profile editor supports creating and editing profiles with the latest iOS settings.
If you’re configuring devices in an environment where consistency is critical, Blueprints allow you to create a custom configuration for your devices 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 like you would to a connected physical device.
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 Configurator stations.
What's New in Version 2.2.1
• Support for skipping the True Tone Setup Assistant pane introduced in iOS 9.3
• Support for new configuration profile payloads and settings introduced in iOS 9.3.2
• Set Restrictions (supervised only): Diagnostic Submission Modification
Apple Configurator 2.2 included the following new features and improvements:
• Modify the Home Screen layout
• Display the physical station and port number and send progress information for each device connected to Bretford PowerSync+ carts and stations
• Support for new configuration profile payloads and settings introduced in iOS 9.3:
• Set and enforce Lock Screen message (supervised only)
• Configure Notification settings (supervised only)
• Configure OS X Server accounts
• Configure which domains are allowed to save and AutoFill passwords in Safari
• Allow Mail Drop for Exchange or Mail accounts
• Set Restrictions (supervised only): Apple Music, Radio, Notifications Modification
• Set Restrictions (supervised only): Specify which apps to show or hide on the Home Screen
• Set Restrictions: iCloud Photo Library, Screen View in Classroom
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Customer Reviews
Admin
We use Configurator to manage over 41 iOS devices (5 iPads and 36 iPod touches) on a daily basis. The iOS devices are used to record data of engagments with our patients throughout the day (three shifts of employees during a 24 hour period). While the app is not the most intuitive, it has worked extremely well for us since day one. We are able to simply plug in our iOS devices, charge them, monitor that charge, re-configure when necessary and or add new devices on the fly with our standard template configuration.
Useless
Completely useless. Apple has taken an app that was an absolute pain to use in the first place and has somehow managed to make it even less intuitive in the update. Profiles that were imported no longer work, new profiles are getting errors stating they are “Invalid”, and every step is met with constant errors regarding connectivity and incompatibility. Considering that you can’t import previous configurations or create a new one without encountering these errors, I’m unsure how this app ever passed the QA phase.
What are they thinking?
What in the world is Apple thinking with this app? It fails at its most basic goal - creating an iPad profile and enforcing it.
- Can’t store apps locally on the Mac. Restore the device? Have to load (all 6GB) of apps each and every time!
- Cannot enforce simple tasks like preventing iOS upgrades or user changing the home screen
- Users can still change backgrounds even though it’s supposed to be locked
The kicker - Upgrading the app deletes all of your devices! Unbelievable. Incomprehensible how Apple can so utterly fail to grasp the needs of its customers.
- Free
- Category: Utilities
- Updated: May 16, 2016
- Version: 2.2.1
- Size: 63.7 MB
- Languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Seller: Apple Inc.
- © 2016 Apple Inc.
Compatibility: OS X 10.11.5 or later