By Richard Mallion
Apple have just updated their Configurator tool for iOS devices. Below is a summary of what has changed or been updated. What’s interesting is that this tool is becoming more and more important, superseding the iPhone Configuration Utility which as yet has not been updated for Mac OS X , even though the Windows version has.
So here is a list of what is new in Apple Configurator 1.2
This update improves overall stability and performance, and includes the following:
- Support for new iOS 6 features (Lock to App and Global HTTP Proxy) on supervised iOS devices
- Support for these new iOS 6 restrictions on a supervised device:
- Allow the removal of apps from the device
- Allow use of iMessage
- Allow access to iBookstore or the purchase of books classified as “Erotica” from iBookstore
- Allow filtering of profanity for Siri
- Allow use of Game Center
- Allow the installation of new configuration profiles
- Improved reliability when activating a new iPhone or iPad with Wi-Fi + Cellular
- The last settings used on the Prepare pane are retained when Apple Configurator is quit and relaunched
- Improved ability to update or restore devices that are currently in recovery mode
- Members of Active Directory groups are now shown in the Assign pane
- Paid apps from the App Store can now be installed in the Prepare pane only when a device is being supervised
- Support for configuring advanced network options on Apple TV