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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.
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All replies. As far as I know the easiest, possibly the only way, to stopping normal programs launching is via System Preferences : Accounts and then go to the Login Items tab. Just remove the applications from there. That won't uninstall the application, just stop it from loading on startup.
Apple doesn't provide a way to simply lock out an app or password protect an app on your iPad, but you can use the Screen Time feature to lock access to apps.
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.
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There is also a trick to hide all the other icons on stock OS devices, but it requires a fair amount of work.
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