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Managed Apple IDs

Managed Apple IDs

By Duncan Gillespie
2 min

Your educational organisation can create Managed Apple IDs for instructors and students to use for educational purposes. Managed Apple IDs are unique to your organisation and separate from Apple IDs that you can create for yourself. You can associate your Managed Apple ID with the same email address and phone number as your personal Apple ID. Unlike personal Apple IDs, IT administrators manage the services that your Managed Apple ID can access.

Check feature availability

Your school or district can use Managed Apple IDs to log in to a Shared iPad and access Apple services. These services include iCloud and Classwork and you can collaborate in Pages, Numbers and Keynote with other users within your organisation. Managed Apple IDs also include 200 GB of iCloud storage.

To maintain a focus on education, these services are disabled for Managed Apple IDs: 

  • App Store purchasing

  • iTunes Store purchasing

  • Book Store purchasing

  • HomeKit connected devices

  • Apple Pay

  • Find My

  • iCloud Mail

  • iCloud Keychain (although Keychain items are saved and restored on Shared iPad devices)

  • iCloud Family Sharing

  • Game Center

Because Managed Apple IDs can't make purchases, administrators assign content to your Managed Apple ID or assigned devices.

Administrators can enable or disable the following services for Managed Apple IDs:

  • FaceTime

  • iMessage

  • Sharing photos and Pages, Numbers and Keynote documents either within or outside your organisation

  • Looking up other Managed Apple IDs within your organisation

  • The ability to request a copy of the data associated with your Managed Apple ID

Not all services are available in all countries or regions.

Administrator access to your account

Your organisation that issues your Managed Apple ID owns your account. Your IT administrators can access your account at any time and make the following changes:

  • Restrict access to your account

  • Remove your account

  • Update your account information

Check the policy that your administrator, managers or instructors have for the personal use of Managed Apple IDs.

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