Apple Business Terms of Service (United States)
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- Kind
- Contract
- Format
- Document id
- LYL252
- Applies to
- Apple Business (business.apple.com), the successor to Apple Business Manager: Attachment 2 Additional Terms for Managed Services, the Volume Content Service Addendum (apps and books) and Attachment 3 Additional Terms for AppleCare Technical Support. US English section of a bilingual PDF; document code LYL252 dated 9 September 2026. Hosted under apple.com/legal/platform-services.
- Aliases
- Apple Business Manager agreement; ABM terms; Volume Content Service Addendum
- Evidence
- Device Assignment requires a separate licence per unique device
- Organization keeps ownership of App Store Volume Content and may reassign it
- Apple Books volume content passes to the user; no library lending
- Apple Books volume content passes to the user; no library lending (VCS Addendum §9A)
- Volume Content audit: records required, shortfall charged at public price
- Volume Content audit: records required, shortfall charged at public price (VCS Addendum §6C)
- Volume subscriptions billed whether or not assigned; licences survive to renewal date
- Volume subscriptions billed whether or not assigned; licences survive to renewal date (VCS Addendum §3A)
- Volume Content sales are final with no price protection
- Volume Content sales are final with no price protection (VCS Addendum §4E)
- Volume Content limited to the Territory and to Authorized Users; no resale
- Volume Content limited to the Territory and to Authorized Users; no resale (VCS Addendum §11A)
- Apple Business: BYOD devices cannot be supervised
- Apple Business Managed Services for internal use only
- Apple Business: accept OS EULAs on the portal before deployment
- Apple Business: release devices before resale or transfer
- Apple Business fees may be introduced or changed
- Apple Business fees may be introduced or changed (Attachment 2 §8)
- AppleCare support plans are sold in Support Incident allowances