Apple Configurator 2 makes it easy to deploy iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Apple TV devices in your school or business.
Apple Configurator 2 features a flexible, device-centric design that enables you quickly and easily configure one or dozens of iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and iPod touch devices connected to your Mac via USB. 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.
Apple Configurator 2 also includes a window that displays information for devices—such as iOS version, serial number, hardware IDs and addresses, and available capacity, and its console log.
Apple Configurator 2 integrates with Apple School Manager and Apple Deployment Programs to automate MDM enrollment as well as the Volume Purchase Program to seamlessly distribute apps from the App Store. The 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 solution for ongoing management. The built-in configuration profile editor supports creating and editing profiles with the latest iOS and tvOS settings.
If you’re configuring devices in an environment where consistency is critical, use Blueprints 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 as you would to a connected physical device.
You can also 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 Apple Configurator 2 computers.
Here’s how you use Apple Configurator 2 to configure and deploy devices:
Create blueprints. Blueprints let you record actions that can be applied to actual devices. You add configuration profiles and apps to blueprints, just as you would add them to a physical device. You can prepare a blueprint so it has the mobile device management (MDM) information and supervision identity attached. You can also add specific actions to a blueprint, such as putting the device into Single App Mode. Once you have the blueprint the way you want, you can apply it to devices. For more information, see About Blueprints.
Create configuration profiles. You can change device settings, letting users automatically connect to Wi-Fi networks, preconfigure mail and Microsoft Exchange settings, and more. For more information, see the Payload settings reference.
Prepare devices. You can initially configure a device, then deploy to many devices at once. Preparing devices is a great deployment option for enterprise organizations and schools that provide devices to employees or students for their day-to-day use. This can involve reusing devices the organization already owns, or can begin with new ones. For more information, see the Prepare devices overview.