apple-icloud MCP Setup & Guide

{
  "id": "io.github.chrischall/apple-icloud-mcp",
  "type": "mcp-server",
  "version": "0.3.1",
  "displayName": "apple-icloud-mcp",
  "description": "Unofficial: Apple Music, iCloud Calendar/Contacts/Mail, Apple Maps and WeatherKit, no Mac needed",
  "repository": {
    "url": "https://github.com/chrischall/apple-icloud-mcp",
    "source": "github"
  },
  "distribution": {
    "packages": [
      {
        "registryType": "npm",
        "identifier": "apple-icloud-mcp",
        "version": "0.3.1",
        "transport": "stdio",
        "environmentVariables": [
          {
            "name": "APPLE_TEAM_ID",
            "description": "Your Apple Developer Team ID (10 characters). Needed for Apple Music (official API), Apple Maps and WeatherKit."
          },
          {
            "name": "APPLE_KEY_ID",
            "description": "Key ID of a private key created in Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles → Keys with Media Services (MusicKit), MapKit JS and/or WeatherKit enabled."
          },
          {
            "name": "APPLE_PRIVATE_KEY",
            "description": "Contents of that key's .p8 file (PEM; one-line values with \\n escapes and base64 are accepted).",
            "isSecret": true
          },
          {
            "name": "APPLE_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH",
            "description": "Local installs only: a path to the .p8 file instead of APPLE_PRIVATE_KEY."
          },
          {
            "name": "APPLE_MUSIC_KEY_ID",
            "description": "Optional per-service override of APPLE_KEY_ID for Apple Music (pair with APPLE_MUSIC_PRIVATE_KEY)."
          },
          {
            "name": "APPLE_MUSIC_PRIVATE_KEY",
            "description": "Optional per-service override of APPLE_PRIVATE_KEY for Apple Music.",
            "isSecret": true
          },
          {
            "name": "APPLE_MAPS_KEY_ID",
            "description": "Optional per-service override of APPLE_KEY_ID for Apple Maps."
          },
          {
            "name": "APPLE_MAPS_PRIVATE_KEY",
            "description": "Optional per-service override of APPLE_PRIVATE_KEY for Apple Maps.",
            "isSecret": true
          },
          {
            "name": "APPLE_WEATHERKIT_KEY_ID",
            "description": "Optional per-service override of APPLE_KEY_ID for WeatherKit."
          },
          {
            "name": "APPLE_WEATHERKIT_PRIVATE_KEY",
            "description": "Optional per-service override of APPLE_PRIVATE_KEY for WeatherKit.",
            "isSecret": true
          },
          {
            "name": "APPLE_WEATHERKIT_SERVICE_ID",
            "description": "WeatherKit only: the Services ID registered for WeatherKit (e.g. com.example.weather)."
          },
          {
            "name": "APPLE_MUSIC_DEVELOPER_TOKEN",
            "description": "Optional: a pre-minted Apple Music developer token (JWT) instead of signing one from the key above.",
            "isSecret": true
          },
          {
            "name": "APPLE_MUSIC_USER_TOKEN",
            "description": "Music User Token for your library (official API), from a one-time MusicKit sign-in: `npx apple-icloud-mcp music-auth`. Without the Apple Developer key, ask the owner for a developer token (music-auth --print-developer-token) and run it with APPLE_MUSIC_DEVELOPER_TOKEN set. Lasts ~6 months.",
            "isSecret": true
          },
          {
            "name": "APPLE_MUSIC_WEB_USER_TOKEN",
            "description": "Opt-in web-player mode (no developer account needed; unlocks rename/delete/remove/reorder): the media-user-token cookie from a signed-in music.apple.com tab.",
            "isSecret": true
          },
          {
            "name": "APPLE_MUSIC_WEB_DEVELOPER_TOKEN",
            "description": "Optional override for the web-player developer token (normally read automatically from music.apple.com).",
            "isSecret": true
          },
          {
            "name": "APPLE_MUSIC_STOREFRONT",
            "description": "Two-letter Apple Music storefront (e.g. us, gb). Default: your account's storefront, else us."
          },
          {
            "name": "ICLOUD_USERNAME",
            "description": "Your Apple ID email, for iCloud Calendar, Contacts and Mail."
          },
          {
            "name": "ICLOUD_APP_PASSWORD",
            "description": "An app-specific password from appleid.apple.com → Sign-In and Security → App-Specific Passwords (NOT your Apple ID password).",
            "isSecret": true
          },
          {
            "name": "ICLOUD_MAIL_ADDRESS",
            "description": "Your @icloud.com address, only if your Apple ID email is not an iCloud address (needed for Mail)."
          },
          {
            "name": "ICLOUD_DEFAULT_CALENDAR",
            "description": "Calendar new events go to when none is named (default: the first writable event calendar)."
          },
          {
            "name": "APPLE_WRITE_MODE",
            "description": "\"none\" = read-only tools; \"additive\" = also create/append, never modify, delete or send; \"all\" = everything (default). Unrecognized values fail closed to \"none\"."
          },
          {
            "name": "APPLE_SERVICES",
            "description": "Comma-separated services to enable (music, calendar, contacts, mail, maps, weather, itunes). Default: all."
          },
          {
            "name": "DISPLAY_TZ",
            "description": "IANA time zone (e.g. America/New_York) for displayed times and for dates you give without an offset. Set this on a hosted server, which runs in UTC."
          },
          {
            "name": "APPLE_UNITS",
            "description": "\"metric\" (default) or \"imperial\" units for weather (Maps distances always show both)."
          },
          {
            "name": "APPLE_STATE_CACHE",
            "description": "Set to false to write nothing under $MCP_DATA_DIR/.apple-icloud-mcp: no web-player token or iCloud discovery cache, and the rejected-password latch and spent confirmation tokens then last only as long as the process."
          },
          {
            "name": "APPLE_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS",
            "description": "Per-request timeout in milliseconds (default 30000)."
          },
          {
            "name": "APPLE_DEBUG_LOG",
            "description": "Set to 1 to log every upstream request line to stderr (credentials redacted)."
          },
          {
            "name": "MCP_CONFIRM_MODE",
            "description": "How confirm-gated writes (send mail, deletes, removing tracks, invitations) behave on a client with no prompt, like claude.ai: \"ask-user\" (default: preview + confirmToken, the model must get your OK), \"auto\", or \"refuse\". Unknown values mean refuse."
          },
          {
            "name": "MCP_CONFIRM_TTL_SECONDS",
            "description": "Lifetime of a confirmToken in seconds (default 600)."
          },
          {
            "name": "MCP_CONFIRM_SECRET",
            "description": "Signing key for confirmTokens. Random per process by default; set it so a token issued just before a restart or redeploy still works (spent tokens are recorded on disk, so none can be replayed).",
            "isSecret": true
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "remotes": []
  },
  "dependencies": [],
  "installTargets": [
    "claude-code",
    "claude-desktop",
    "cursor",
    "vscode",
    "trae",
    "cherry-studio",
    "lingma",
    "windsurf",
    "cline",
    "workbuddy"
  ],
  "keywords": [],
  "provenance": {
    "origin": "official-mcp-registry",
    "originalId": "io.github.chrischall/apple-icloud-mcp",
    "originalUrl": "https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0.1/servers/io.github.chrischall%2Fapple-icloud-mcp/versions/latest",
    "isOfficial": true,
    "status": "active"
  }
}