Reputation: 339

ipad lockdown: launch app on boot?

We have a need for warehouse staff to use an ipad app for stock control.

Is it possible to lock down the ipad and only show/launch our custom app on screen. So i want to remove/hide/disable all other apps except ours.

Cheers, Trav.

Upvotes: 6

Answers (5)

Husky

Reputation: 6186

As far as i know it's not possible to boot in a specific app, but it is possible to 'lock' the iPad in one app using Guided Access:

http://www.imore.com/how-restrict-access-specific-app-guided-access-iphone-and-ipad

Note that this even works with a website, provided you have made a 'web app' using these meta tags.

Upvotes: 1

Jay

Reputation: 1

Look into Guided Access which will allow you to lock it on one app and act like a kiosk.

Upvotes: -1

hotpaw2

Reputation: 70673

Almost.

You can use Apple's official iPhone Configuration Utility to lock down most features of the iPad so that only your app can be installed, render many of the built-in apps useless, and prevent (re)configuring wifi, email, etc. But the user will still be shown a whole bunch of other stuff they can't use. You can move all the apps other than your own to the second page. An enterprise account is not required to run this utility.

A firewall in conjunction a VPN that all the iPads are configured locked to might also be helpful.

ADDED:

There is also a trick to hide all the other icons on stock OS devices, but it requires a fair amount of work.

Upvotes: 4