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Manage App Store apps

With Relution, it is possible to distribute apps from the Apple App Store to devices. To do this, an app license must always be purchased – regardless of whether the app is paid for or not. On iOS devices, an app license can either be purchased via Apps and Books (VPP in the portal) or obtained via an Apple ID signed in on the device. On Apple TV devices, however, apps from the App Store can only be installed with an Apps and Books license; the Apple ID route is not available there. The setup of Apps and Books is described in the corresponding chapter →.

Apps purchased in Apple School / Business Manager are automatically synchronized to Relution. Apps are published in Relution with the release status Release and can be distributed to devices afterwards. Apps that should not be made available to all users can also be manually assigned to a different release status. An app can also be manually added to the Relution App Store at any time. However, Apps and Books licenses are not automatically available for these apps. On Apple TV devices, they can only be installed once Apps and Books licenses are available for them. These licenses can be obtained at a later date.

Distribute apps

Apps from the App Store are normally distributed to Apple TV devices as required apps via the App Compliance → policy configuration.

An app is assigned to individual devices via the device action Deploy Relution store app. In addition to native apps, it also offers the apps from the App Store that are listed under the iOS platform in the Relution App Store. The action Deploy an app from the Apple App Store is not available for tvOS devices.

Manage apps

Apps from the App Store are updated automatically by the operating system. In rare cases, however, this does not work. In this case, there are two ways to trigger an update:

  • In the app’s detail view, the affected devices are selected on the Devices with this app tab and updated via Update app. The button is disabled as soon as one of the selected devices already has the version in the Release status installed.
  • Alternatively, the action Deploy Relution store app is executed with the app in question on the affected devices.

In both cases, a reinstallation is triggered and the devices validate the app version with Apple’s App Store. If the available version is more recent than the installed version, the existing app is updated.