The invention provides an image forming apparatus, an information processing apparatus, and an information processing method. The image forming apparatus comprises a printing unit that is capable of performing printing on a recording medium using information from terminal devices, a history information holding unit that holds printing history information including information of each of the terminal devices that have performed printing using the printing unit, and an identification unit that identifies status grasping target terminal devices by the information of the terminal devices, the information being included in the printing history information.