Model: Apple TV 4K (3rd generation) Wi-Fi & Ethernet 128GB I am an Apple Systems Admin for a school district. A contractor working on new buildings/upgrades for us purchased Apple TVs outside of our Apple account. When attempting to add these Apple TVs to Apple School Manager and enroll them into our MDM (via Apple Configurator 2 version 2.17), i'm running into a few problems. When inputting the Pair Code: -Says “Pairing Failed (-402653161)”--this error code only takes me to Apple Forums that end up answerless -But device still shows up under Paired Devices and in Configurator On Step 3 of 4 when “Preparing Apple TV—Activating TVOS” -An unexpected error has occurred with “Apple TV”. The device is not connected. [ConfigurationUtilityKit.error – 0x25B (603)]--this error code also only points me to Apple Forums for Configurator problems regarding iPads -only option is “Stop” -Appears that Configurator is still working in the background Click Stop (as it is my only option), then Apple TV then disappears from Configurator. Devices appear to be wiping OS/reinstalling OS and then going back to factory default settings. They are not being added to our ASM account. Any ideas?

Hello, is there any plan to add a new service type for Privacy Preferences Policy Control profile to allow apps deployed via MDM on Organization owned devices to access local network without prompting end user on Sequoia ? This would be very welcome, especially in education world where students are good at finding on how to block the tools they are supposed to use. I created FB14540495 for reference. Thanks !

We have currently a problem with devices managed by Intune repeatedly asking for a new lock code. The problem seems to be a bug in iOS with the interaction of Intune. We have selected "Max PIN Age In Days: 0" for the setting. This has always worked so far. The PIN did not have to be changed as described in the documentation. From yesterday, however, every user was asked to change the PIN. This sometimes happened every minute. The problem has affected 500 devices. Is this a known bug?

Hello, I am testing Configuration Profiles' Passcode policy in an MDM environment. After setting the 'maxFailedAttempts' property to 5 and deploying the Passcode payload via MDM to iPhones, some iPhones are not wiped after exceeding 5 failed passcode attempts. Could you please advise on the possible reasons for this issue? Devices affected: iPhone 11 (iOS 16.4.1), iPhone 12 mini (iOS 16.5).

In MDM device management, I called the device synchronization interface (Sync the List of Devices: https://mdmenrollment.apple.com/devices/sync), and the returned data device_assigned_by did not return an email address as described in the documentation, but returned a string of numbers. What's the situation? This situation only occurs on some devices, and other devices return email addresses normally. Is there any solution for this?

iPads managed by Apple Business Manager and an MDM tool (Microsoft Intune) are distributed to employees for use. An employee forgot his iPad passcode and entered the wrong passcode too many times, resulting in his iPad being locked. Since they are also disconnected from networks such as WiFi, passcode removal and wiping from MDM tools are not effective. Is there anything else I can do other than put my iPad into recovery mode and initialize it? Best regards.

I have been running ABM to synchronize devices for some time now, but in recent days, when using the interface for synchronization, the response from the interface to the device's' Device-Assigned-by 'field has changed. The official website should return' The email of the person who assigned the device. 'However, what I received was a string of numbers, such as 275xxxxx, which corresponds to the ABM user's ID. Some devices may change the field to email again when synchronizing, but unfortunately some devices will always have these numbers. How can I recover the email?

I have been running ABM to synchronize devices for some time now, but in recent days, when using interface synchronization, the device's "assembly_assigned-by" field responded by the interface has changed. The official website should return "The email of the person who assigned the device." However, what I received was a string of numbers, such as 275xxxxxxxx. Some devices may change the field to email again when synchronizing, but unfortunately some devices will always have these numbers. How can I recover the email? https://mdmenrollment.apple.com/server/devices https://mdmenrollment.apple.com/devices/sync

We want to set key-value pair (installation_token: xxxxx) into an app installed by MDM. Formerly we could set the key-value using Settings MDM command like this. <dict> <key>Command</key> <dict> <key>RequestType</key> <string>Settings</string> <key>Settings</key> <array> <dict> <key>Configuration</key> <dict> <key>installation_token</key> <string>xxxxxxx</string> </dict> <key>Identifier</key> <string>com.cloudflare.cloudflareoneagent</string> <key>Item</key> <string>ApplicationConfiguration</string> </dict> </array> </dict> We can still use this for the apps installed withInstallApplication MDM command, however we cannot apply this configuration into the app using Declarative Device Management. When we try it, we got an error like this. <dict> <key>CommandUUID</key> <string>.............</string> <key>Settings</key> <array> <dict> <key>ErrorChain</key> <array> <dict> <key>ErrorCode</key> <integer>12008</integer> <key>ErrorDomain</key> <string>MDMErrorDomain</string> <key>LocalizedDescription</key> <string>Could not modify apps managed by Declarative Device Management.</string> <key>USEnglishDescription</key> <string>Could not modify apps managed by Declarative Device Management.</string> </dict> </array> <key>Identifier</key> <string>com.cloudflare.cloudflareoneagent</string> <key>Item</key> <string>ApplicationConfiguration</string> <key>Status</key> <string>Error</string> </dict> </array> How can we work with managed application configuration with DDM?

When syncing newly added or modified devices in the Apple Business Manager (ABM) portal using the POST request to https://mdmenrollment.apple.com/devices/sync, we are getting an issue when the ABM server account has more than 1000 devices. The response consistently includes 1000 devices, with the ‘more_to_follow’ flag always set to true and the ‘cursor’ value changing. However, subsequent ABM syncs for other devices result in duplicate devices being included in the response, and the ‘more_to_follow’ flag never becomes false. As more_to_follow is always true, we try to hit api continuously. Please refer this for sync API details which is causing issue: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/sync_the_list_of_devices This issue appears to originate from the Apple ABM side. Any help would be of great use. Thanks in advance.

Hello, has anyone been able to update/restore devices to the iOS 18 beta with Apple Configurator? I receive the error : Failed to create new state machine for restore [com.apple.MobileDevice.MobileRestore – 0xFB1 (4017)] The devices are stuck in recovery mode and I've done hard resets along with other steps like different cables, host reboot, etc. I've also tried to restore to iOS Release but I'm met with the same error.

Can we get more information about the state of profile-driven user enrollment in iOS 18? The only official statement seems to be this post here on the forums and nothing more. 1 Year deprecation and removal during the beta cycle is usually not the way Apple does this stuff - UIWebView was deprecated for 6 years. Nothing in the wording during the WWDC Session indicates this is going to be removed in iOS 18, and none of the documentations we could find mentions profile-driven user enrollment is being removed this year. Could we please get an official answer stating that yes, this is being removed, and that it's not just a bug in the Beta cycle?

I implemented parents to manage their children's apps with FamilyActivityPicker. Then, is there way to get child’s app list without FamilyActivityPicker?

I recall years ago that autoconfigure for email accounts worked in iOS Mail/macOS Mail.app when MacOS X Server was a thing. The protocol is supported by Outlook and Thunderbird and some other apps as well. Using WireShark, I can see there's some network activity from Mail.app when trying to get to the second step of adding a new email account. The most documentation I've been able to find online is making a mobileconfig file which works but is cumbersome in comparison to how it works with Outlook and Thunderbird. If there's any kind of documentation on autoconfigure for macOS/iOS, I'd like to see it so I can help with Virtualmin development team fix their implementation of autoconfigure/autodiscover to properly work with iOS/macOS. Help anyone?

just upgraded my local iPhone 15 to iOS 18 Beta 3, and I enrolled the device to MDM server. Then ran EraseDevice command with ReturnToService as enabled. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/erasedevicecommand/command/returntoservice MDM command request body: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Command</key> <dict> <key>DisallowProximitySetup</key> <false/> <key>PreserveDataPlan</key> <true/> <key>RequestType</key> <string>EraseDevice</string> <key>ReturnToService</key> <dict> <key>Enabled</key> <true/> <key>WiFiProfileData</key> <data>WiFi Profile Base64</data> <key>MDMProfileData</key> <data>MDM Profile Base64</data> </dict> </dict> <key>CommandUUID</key> <string>0001_EraseDevice</string> </dict> </plist> MDM executed the command successfully. The device erased itself, and opened Hello Screen after few secs, but device did not went to the Home Screen, however same works fine on iOS 17.

There is new porperty introduced in iOS 18 Beta for VPN i.e CellularSliceUUID But there is no description available for the same. Could you please let us know how this property can impact VPN? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/vpn?changes=latest_major&amp;language=objc

I am having two issues with an IKEv2 VPN profile and certificates, and I am using Apple Configurator to create the profile. We have a self-signed CA that consists of an intermediate/root chain. The first issue is that when I load the intermediate and/or root into the Certificates section, then, in the VPN section, select Certificate for Machine Authentication, the VPN doesn't connect, and from Console, we get the error "Trust evaluate failure: [leaf MissingIntermediate]." If I load the server cert, the profile connects. I am lost as to why this works, I would assume we would need only the intermediate and/or root. Second issue I am running into, is that when I put the Intermediate CA name into "Server Certificate Issuer Common Name" the VPN does not connect at all. With the server cert or not. If I can provide any more information at all, please let me know. With this being a public forum, I didn't want to include much from my organization but can send it privately. Thank you in advance for any assistance. Screenshot of the console error is attached

When making a GET request to the ABM Account API at https://mdmenrollment.apple.com/account, we receive a response that includes an org_email field. However, we’ve noticed that the value of org_email varies. Sometimes it corresponds to an account with the role of Administrator, while other times it comes from account with roles Device Enrolment Manager, Content Manager and People Manager. We seek clarification on the following points: Which roles determine the org_email sent in the response? Is the org_email coming in API response always same or does it change when we hit the APIs in multiple times. org_email in this response: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/accountdetail

Enrol Supervised iOS device. Push an CardDAV policy for the above device, the contacts gets synced in the native Contacts app as expected. (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/carddav) When the above same profile is re-installed in the above device, the synced contacts are lost and password prompt is shown to enter the password - even though the installed profile contains password for the CardDAV policy. Password prompt from the device Re-Installed configuration <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>PayloadVersion</key> <integer>1</integer> <key>PayloadUUID</key> <string>35ee541b-fec0-46b0-bd48-bcc0702ab60b</string> <key>PayloadType</key> <string>Configuration</string> <key>PayloadOrganization</key> <string>MDM</string> <key>PayloadIdentifier</key> <string>com.mdm.ec89620f-2905-4c14-b09d-7e9f17944468.CardDAV</string> <key>PayloadDisplayName</key> <string>CardDAV</string> <key>PayloadRemovalDisallowed</key> <true/> <key>PayloadContent</key> <array> <dict> <key>PayloadVersion</key> <integer>1</integer> <key>PayloadUUID</key> <string>07c423b5-8ae2-4e6e-9336-aa9ca850d6c9</string> <key>PayloadType</key> <string>com.apple.carddav.account</string> <key>PayloadOrganization</key> <string>MDM</string> <key>PayloadIdentifier</key> <string>07cV423b5-8ae2-4e6e-9336-aa9ca850d6c9</string> <key>PayloadDisplayName</key> <string>CardDAV Policy</string> <key>CardDAVAccountDescription</key> <string>****</string> <key>CardDAVHostName</key> <string>www.googleapis.com</string> <key>CardDAVPassword</key> <string>****</string> <key>CardDAVPort</key> <integer>443</integer> <key>CardDAVPrincipalURL</key> <string></string> <key>CardDAVUseSSL</key> <true/> <key>CardDAVUsername</key> <string>****</string> </dict> </array> </dict> </plist> Feedback ID : FB14250521

Enrol Supervised iOS device Turn ON screen time restriction by opening Settings app -> Content & Privacy restrictions -> Passcode & Face ID -> Don’t Allow. Now install a Passcode policy profile via MDM with the key “forcePIN” set to “true”, such that the device is needed to change the passcode in device. By following above steps, the profile fails. The failure response from the device states that passcode restriction is applied in the device, “The profile ‘Profilename’ may require a passcode change but the passcode cannot be modified.” This is an incorrect behaviour as MDM should have more control over the screen-time restriction as well. Error response from the device <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>CommandUUID</key> <string>InstallProfile</string> <key>ErrorChain</key> <array> <dict> <key>ErrorCode</key> <integer>4001</integer> <key>ErrorDomain</key> <string>MCInstallationErrorDomain</string> <key>LocalizedDescription</key> <string>Profile Installation Failed</string> <key>USEnglishDescription</key> <string>Profile Installation Failed</string> </dict> <dict> <key>ErrorCode</key> <integer>4026</integer> <key>ErrorDomain</key> <string>MCInstallationErrorDomain</string> <key>LocalizedDescription</key> <string>The profile **** may require a passcode change but the passcode cannot be modified.</string> <key>USEnglishDescription</key> <string>The profile **** may require a passcode change but the passcode cannot be modified.</string> </dict> </array> <key>Status</key> <string>Error</string> <key>UDID</key> <string>****</string> </dict> </plist> Feedback ID : FB14249704