Apple Platform Deployment
- Welcome
- Intro to Apple Platform Deployment
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- Declarative status reports
- Declarative app configuration
- Authentication credentials and identity asset declaration
- Background task management declarative
- Calendar declarative configuration
- Certificates declarative configuration
- Contacts declarative configuration
- Exchange declarative configuration
- Google Accounts declarative configuration
- LDAP declarative configuration
- Legacy interactive profile declarative configuration
- Legacy profile declarative configuration
- Mail declarative configuration
- Maths and Calculator app declarative configuration
- Managed Migration Assistant declarative configuration
- Passcode declarative configuration
- Passkey Attestation declarative configuration
- Safari browsing management declarative configuration
- Safari extensions management declarative configuration
- Screen Sharing declarative configuration
- Service configuration files declarative configuration
- Software Update declarative configuration
- Software Update settings declarative configuration
- Storage management declarative configuration
- Subscribed Calendars declarative configuration
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- Accessibility payload settings
- Active Directory Certificate payload settings
- AirPlay payload settings
- AirPlay Security payload settings
- AirPrint payload settings
- App Lock payload settings
- Associated Domains payload settings
- Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) payload settings
- Autonomous Single App Mode payload settings
- Calendar payload settings
- Mobile payload settings
- Mobile Private Network payload settings
- Certificate Preference payload settings
- Certificate Revocation payload settings
- Certificate Transparency payload settings
- Certificates payload settings
- Conference Room Display payload settings
- Contacts payload settings
- Content Caching payload settings
- Directory Service payload settings
- DNS Proxy payload settings
- DNS Settings payload settings
- Fonts payload settings
- Domains payload settings
- Energy Saver payload settings
- Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) payload settings
- Exchange Web Services (EWS) payload settings
- Extensible Single Sign-on payload settings
- Extensible Single Sign-on Kerberos payload settings
- Extensions payload settings
- FileVault payload settings
- Finder payload settings
- Firewall payload settings
- Fonts payload settings
- Global HTTP Proxy payload settings
- Google Accounts payload settings
- Home Screen Layout payload settings
- Identification payload settings
- Identity Preference payload settings
- Kernel Extension Policy payload settings
- LDAP payload settings
- Lights Out Management payload settings
- Lock Screen Message payload settings
- Login Window payload settings
- Managed Login Items payload settings
- Mail payload settings
- Network Usage Rules payload settings
- Notifications payload settings
- Parental Controls payload settings
- Passcode payload settings
- Printing payload settings
- Privacy Preferences Policy Control payload settings
- Relay payload settings
- SCEP payload settings
- Security payload settings
- Setup Assistant payload settings
- Single Sign-on payload settings
- Smart Card payload settings
- Subscribed Calendars payload settings
- System Extensions payload settings
- System Migration payload settings
- Time Machine payload specifics
- TV Remote payload settings
- Web Clips payload settings
- Web Content Filter payload settings
- LDAP payload settings
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WWDC26 Education-specific updates
Note: The features discussed on this page are pre-release versions and may be incomplete, changed or removed before final release.
Guided browsing and lock to URL
A majority of education technology tools are accessed using websites. Keeping students on a specific website and preventing them from navigating away can be a challenge for instructors.
In a new version of the Classroom app on devices with iPadOS 27 and macOS 27, instructors can lock student devices to one or more specific websites, which creates a focused, controlled browsing session — no IT configuration is required. Instructors initiate a guided browsing session from Classroom, then student iPad and Mac devices lock to the instructor-specified URLs in a full window in the Guided Browser app. All the following remain active:
Shared cookie store
Safari extensions
Content filtering
AutoFill
Accessibility settings
Instructors can access saved bookmarks and favourites directly from Classroom for common lesson destinations and, if necessary, they can navigate all enrolled student devices to a new URL without ending the session.
For more information, see the WWDC26 session What’s New in Assessment on macOS.
Multi-app mode
Instructors and students use an average of 40+ education technology tools (Source: Instructure: K-12 EdTech Engagement) throughout the school year, and a single lesson may require accessing assignments in a learning management system, watching an instructional video, taking notes and using a calculator.
Later this year, a new version of the Classroom app will allow instructors to lock student iPad and Mac devices to one or more apps to allow multi-app learning sessions without giving students unrestricted device access.
Students can move seamlessly between approved apps with full functionality, and instructors can modify the app list in Classroom during an active session without ending the locked session.
Assessment mode
New assessment mode features on macOS for education assessment will help app vendors manage standardised testing using a Mac. On a Mac with macOS 27, developers can now adopt a flexible, granular version of Automatic Assessment Configuration on Mac to create a secure, configurable testing environment that incorporates more system-level features on the Mac, including the Dock and Menu Bar. In addition, built-in system pre-checks and accessibility controls deliver a reliable exam experience.
For more information, see the WWDC26 session What’s new in Assessment on macOS.