How to Lock iPad to One App or Specific App Mode
iPads are known for their visual delight and attractive user interface when it comes showcasing your products or services. You can deploy it as a kiosk or as a conference booth display either in your retail stores, shopfronts or in offices to exhibit your business, products, and solutions in a fun and interactive way to the prospective customers. It has its own “cool appeal”, which makes it highly suitable for sales and marketing display as well as for other advertising display purposes.
However, you don’t want your potential customers, executives or booth visitors to tamper with your devices and the settings as it’s important to ensure that your enterprise iPads are being used for work and no other unwanted purposes. In other words, lock iPad to one app or specific app mode. So, if you are preparing to use your iPad in a public environment, and are looking to prevent device, setting and data misuse, app switching, or limit hardware and software access while focusing only on the content that you intend to display to people — you have come across the right information piece!
To your delight, you can seamlessly turn your iPad into “One App Mode”, which restricts user access to one application, and it involves some really simple steps.
At first, please ensure that you are working with managed iPads before applying this feature.
The initial steps would be:
1.To have a MobiLock account
2.To setup APNs account
3.iPad supervised device
4.Enroll iPad using a QR code
5.To create Apple Device Profile
Now Lock iPad to One App Mode
Once you login to the MobiLock dashboard, which you will find totally easy-to-use and comprehend, you need to take the following steps:
a. Choose to CREATE NEW PROFILE.
b. Select “Apple” for the iOS devices, thereafter enter the Profile name and then press submit.
c. Enable your application which you want it to run on your iPads in One App Mode in Select Apps section
d. Thereafter navigate to the RESTRICTIONS section and click on the SINGLE APP MODE tab. Choose the Single App Mode as shown in the reference image
e. Select the application that you want to set and the one enabled from the Default Application Dropdown. Create Profile or Update Profile to save the settings.
Once, you select a profile and save the settings, it will be applied to all your managed iPads, which will now run in one app mode.
Now you Successfully Locked iPad to One App
There are various other settings, which can be controlled in One App Mode
Easy, isn’t it? MobiLock Pro as an all-inclusive Apple MDM solution makes it a breeze to set up your iPad(s) to One App Mode, promising total ease-of-use and purposefulness for your business requirements. In addition, MobiLock provides various other tools to remotely monitor, control and secure all your iPads across your organization, which gives a clear boost to your device performance, employee productivity, and overall business efficiency. For more details, visit our website www.mobilock.in and know how we can help you.
Originally published at blog.mobilock.in on January 15, 2019.
