The declarative device management video demonstrates how today's profile management can be achieved through configuration type declaration. I'm interested and curious to know about the plans for mechanisms to manage applications through declarations. I'm wondering if there could be a new type of declaration for managed applications or would it be accommodated with the existing type of declarations (say, assets or configuration)?

Hi, We have just signed up for the Apple developer program as a company, and we would like to develop an application for our clients. The current application is not on the App store, so there is no "transfer" to do, per say. The customer has his developer account as well, so we want them to add our company as a whole on their account so we can "do the work of publishing" for them. We will manage who has the rights to test, develop and publish apps for the client. In the past, each developer created their own developer account using their own email address. The clients then added the individual account in their developer program. There are 2 problems that we're trying to address: We have multiple developers working on the same project and we would like to release new versions with our company's credentials rather than the individual's account. Over time, some employees have left our company and we no longer have access to our clients' developer accounts to make updates without their intervention. How can our clients add our organization so we can manage the clients' applications. Thanks for all your help.

We're building an app for a client that is providing emergency services to employees of businesses that have insurance policies with our client (it's a value added service they're providing to their clients). The issue is, they only want the employees of their clients to be able to register on the app. At the moment, once the user downloads the app and enters their details our client gets a notification which allows them to approve or deny the user access to the app. (This is working fine on the Google Play Store). I'd like to know whether this model is support by the Apple App Store and if so which program should we enroll in? Our current thoughts are to have our client create a business manager account use the VPP to send vouchers to specific users, but we're not sure if there is a better way forward.

I wasn't sure how best to word the question but I can explain. We are developing an application for a customer. This app is to be used by their staff and shouldn't be available to the public. We plan on using Apple Business Manager to distribute the app to them, from which they can use their MDM tool to push the app out to the required devices. The bit I am unsure of is they also have a group of distributers (separate companies that sell their products) that require access to the app. As I said before, it cant be open to the general public and therefore rules out the App Store. The distributors are also separate businesses and so I doubt our customer can use their MDM to manage the distributer's devices. What I'd like to know is can our customer re-distribute our app from their ABM to their distributors? I understand we could most likely distribute the app out to the distributors as well but if at all possible I'd like to avoid us managing who they want to give the app to. Any thoughts would be appreciated or if you think I'm going about this all wrong to begin with, please say. This is new territory for me.

I've been looking around but could not find any answer on how to transfer an app from one company to another without losing Small Business Program. Both companies are owned by the same person and both meet the criteria to be eligible for the Small Business Program. Anyone had an experience doing this or have any info about it ?

Hi, We recently noticed that the following Macbook models have the same Model Identifier: MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015) MacBook Air (13-inch, 2017) Model Identifier: MacBookAir7,2. Source It causes a little confusion to know what model a device is. Is there any other key available in MDM's DeviceInformation to distinguish different Macbook models? Thanks in advance.

According to the Apple Developer Enterprise Program Eligibility the companies can only "Use the program only to create proprietary, in-house apps for internal use, and to distribute these apps privately and securely to employees within the organization" but these companies (Thunkable or Wix) allow to anyone export an app and install in the phone for example: https://www.wix.com/branded/apps/ios

We are unable to find a key in the MDM's Device information query response that tells us whether a mac uses T1 or T2 security chip. Is there a way to deduce this with the device information response we are already receiving? Thank you.