Managed Apple IDs

Managed Apple Accounts (formerly Managed Apple IDs) are accounts your school owns and manages in Apple School Manager. They support school services such as Shared iPad and classroom collaboration. They are separate from personal Apple Accounts and do not provide access to every personal-account service; see Apple's Managed Apple Account overview for account features and supported services.

For app deployment, first choose whether the license belongs to the device or the user. Device-assigned apps do not require an Apple Account or Managed Apple Account on the device. User-assigned apps and books use an account-linked license. The Classroom and SIS guidance below concerns that user-assigned workflow, not a sign-in requirement for all managed apps.

Silent invite

FileWave can assign Apps and Books licenses to Managed Apple Accounts through VPP users. Books purchased from the Apple Books store must be assigned to users, not devices, and their licenses cannot be revoked and reassigned. This differs from managed app licenses, which can be reassigned. The Managed Apple Account must be associated with a VPP user for the corresponding Apps and Books token before the organization can assign user-based licenses. Apple's content distribution methods explain the device and user licensing choices.

Managed Apple Accounts automatically accept managed app licenses assigned by the device management service. FileWave can link the matching VPP user and Managed Apple Account without asking the user to accept a separate organization invitation. Personal Apple Accounts still require that invitation.

With the release of FileWave 12.7 FileWave have implemented this feature for 1:1 devices. Whenever a change occurs in the "Classroom" panel, FileWave will link the VPP user to the device;

When this happens a VPP user will be associated to the user Managed Apple ID - and therefore user based licenses, including those for books, can be deployed, without the need of manually joining the organization. The user does not need to accept a separate Apps and Books organization invitation on each device for this managed-account association.

Set up user-assigned licenses

For the current FileWave procedure, follow Assign Apple Books to Managed Apple Accounts with VPP. It covers the Classroom device-to-user assignment, device sign-in, VPP user creation, matching organization and token, license deployment, and Model Update.

Older iOS sign-in layout

The following notes preserve the older iTunes & App Store layout used with the original workflow. The Settings path is historical; use the current procedure above rather than looking for that exact menu on newer iOS or iPadOS releases.

The user will need to sign in to the App store on their device with their managed Apple ID. Without this there is no way to know what managed Apple ID should be on which device. To do this the user will need to go to Settings -> iTunes & App Store -> Sign in with the account. If you are already signing the devices in with the managed Apple ID for iCloud you still will need to sign them in to the iTunes App store settings on the device.

One tip with this setup would be to sign in with the Managed Apple ID on the device during DEP setup on the individual devices. This would allow you to skip a step of signing the devices in after Enrollment is finished. So for this you would want to Enable Apple ID setup in your DEP profile so that this is not skipped during initial activation.