Removing Apple VPP Licenses

To manually remove licenses and use them for a different set of devices, you must delete the application catalog rule that determines how the licenses are applied. Once the licenses have been released, you are free to re-use them.

Automatic License Revocation

License are also released when they are automatically revoked from devices during the nightly maintenance schedule. They are then reconciled into the VPP account. Automatic revocation occurs in devices where:

  • The associated application catalog rule is deleted
  • The device was moved to a device group not targeted by the application catalog rule
  • The device was deleted or un-enrolled from SOTI MobiControl
  • The assignment type was switched from device based to user based

VPP License Reconciliation

The nightly maintenance schedule automatically reconciles and cleans up any errant VPP licenses and their statuses. You can also manually update the status if you do not want to wait for the nightly maintenance.