Managed Apple Accounts — that is to say, Apple accounts that are provisioned by your workplace or school — are different from Personal Apple Accounts in the services that they support. As organizations work to adopt Managed Apple Accounts, they’ve been stopped by some of those missing stairs in the process, one of which has been that Managed Apple Accounts could not be used to test TestFlight builds.

Thankfully, in an update to their documentation today, Apple announced that they now support Managed Apple Accounts for TestFlight builds. Fantastic news! One less missing stair. There are two important notes with their use however:

1. The account address must be able to receive email.
2. The account address cannot be on the reserved domain.

There are still some limits to Managed Apple Accounts that remain, and those include:

• 5GB Maximum Limit on iCloud storage, with no purchase possible for more space.*
• No support for AirTags or other Find My features.
• No support for App Store login, even to accept and use free applications.**
• Organizer account for your Apple Developer Program cannot be a Managed Apple Account.

We’re getting closer and closer to having full support for Managed Apple Accounts in the Enterprise.

* Yes, I know about Apple Business Essentials. No, that is not a sufficient solution.

** This is maybe not a desirable solution, but I would definitely be on board with it being a possible solution.