Associated Domains in Custom Apps

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Created Jan ’22

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We have an iOS app that is distributed as a Custom App using Apple Business Manager. Our customers are firms which do some final configuration (via MDM) on the app so that it is ready for their employess to use.

We now want to introduce Universal Links. The associated domain for these links corresponds to the respective server of the customer. We have tried out the links on a sample branch and it all works fine. But: Our product must not contain any customer-specific information. So we cannot enter the server addresses of the customers as associated domains in Xcode. I would expect there to be a way to register an associated domain via MDM using a configuraiton or profile, to circumvent the Apple Content Delivery Network. But I cannot find a way.

Does anybody have a clue?

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Device Management Engineer OP

Apple

Jan ’22

Yes, there is an MDM feature for this situation: The MDM server can set custom associated domains on managed apps.

When installing a managed app or setting managed app settings the MDM server can specify managed app attributes. One of those attributes is AssociatedDomains, as documented here.

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Answer 2

flabag OP

Feb ’22

I may be wrong, but I do not think the AssociatedDomains in that article are the ones I need. What I need is for Universal Links and circumventing the Apple Content Delivery Network. The article seems to be about VPN and similar network settings.

We have talked to a large MDM vendor, and they did not know how to do it. The mentioned article did not help them and they supported my doubts that it may not be the same topic.

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