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Shared iPad 2, anyway to limit access to email?
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It is quite a leap to make a suggestion for marriage counseling if one merely wants to have a way to restrict apps from others on a shared device...
I cant afford to have one each on the family, so mine will be shared a bit.
I would like email privacy, not just to "hide" stuff but as others have said, dont want kids to send emails, or see jokes from mates etc. Also I buy birthday pressys etc, and get email confirmations. Also if there using it when I'm not in, and show friends etc, so I do see a good reason to have separate profiles/accounts.
At the moment, I've just not set up email, and will use webmail as suggested. But this also throws up other problems. I have games, games centre, iTunes etc on, and its all under my name. I've restricted in app buying and iTunes for now.
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I would like email privacy, not just to "hide" stuff but as others have said, dont want kids to send emails, or see jokes from mates etc. Also I buy birthday pressys etc, and get email confirmations. Also if there using it when I'm not in, and show friends etc, so I do see a good reason to have separate profiles/accounts.
At the moment, I've just not set up email, and will use webmail as suggested. But this also throws up other problems. I have games, games centre, iTunes etc on, and its all under my name. I've restricted in app buying and iTunes for now.
cheers
i got it to work you need to "x" out of the tab and then hit the home button and your good to go. THANKS!
I can fully understand why people want profiles, but I not sure it's on Apple's agenda: They'd much rather sell one to each member of the family!
lol.. You just said what I was thinking. After the iPad 4-digit lock is entered, I can't think of any other levels of protection on an unjailbroken model.
This is a serious limitation of the iPad and should be addressed. Some of us are professionals, and there are sensitive work-information that should should not be seen by others or played with by children. (I.e., other people's medical information, attorney-client work product, etc).
It would be trivial for Apple to implement -- you can already set restrictions for certain apps and functionality (like adding or deleting new apps). That being said, I'm sure Steve will just tell me I'm using it wrong, or to buy one for everyone in the household.
Then use a computer. The proposition that a wireless mobile device should have accommodations for multiple users in the name of "security" is lunacy. iPads are not designed to be enterprise devices that process sensitive information.
If you have that sensitive information on your iPad, I'd go as far as to say you shouldn't let kids near it...
I don't think it would be as trivial as people think: with iOS, all your preferences, etc are stored in the sandbox for the application: To have multiple accounts would require multiple sandbox storage areas for each app and they'd have to be linked in to the existing locations so apps wouldn't need re-developing. You also have the issue then of push notifications: how do you deliver push notifications for multiple accounts? Do you just deliver to the currently logged on user? what if there's no-one logged on?
I'm not saying it couldn't be done, just that it's non-trivial
While that's true, it's also true that it wouldn't be a big deal to add profiles, or add a setting so you had to enter a password every time for certain e-mail inboxes.
There are lots of little things like that which could be easily done that would make the iPad (and competing tablets) a lot more useful as a work tool as well as being great media consumption toys like currently.
For the iPad and iPhone, breaking the dependence on iTunes is still the #1 reason that businesses don't adopt it.
Right, and if you know NCIS's reputation in the law enforcement community that makes complete sense.
True. But I'm just talking being able to use it for work on a personal level. Not that it has to be adopted company wide.
I'm a professor, I can use whatever I want to do my work as I work at home a lot etc. And many other people have similar privileges.
So there's lots of little things they could add to get people like me to be able to do more work on it. Passwording e-mail accounts for people like the OP, USB drive support so I can get files onto a thumb drive while traveling without needing access to a computer, and various little things like that.
This issue could be easily solved if there was a "Mail" restriction on the iPhone.. Not sure why practically everything else is there but this. Send Apple an e-mail requesting the feature that way you can just passcode protect the Mail app.
Even privacy aside. it would be nice, at the very least to have a "2nd" (or multiple) mail app. that way i wouldn't have to combine inboxes with my wife which is a logistical problem. for now, i use the mail app, and she uses the web. but not ideal...
There have been several good arguments in the developer community for the iPad being a personal device, and I tend to believe them.
http://speirs.org/blog/2011/1/21/how-the-ipad-wants-to-be-used.html
(Don't take this as me trying to tell the OP to buy more iPads, I just think the debate is interesting.
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http://speirs.org/blog/2011/1/21/how-the-ipad-wants-to-be-used.html
(Don't take this as me trying to tell the OP to buy more iPads, I just think the debate is interesting.
)Just so you know, there is no dependence on iTunes for these devices. I'm not sure why you're commenting on what businesses do, since you evidently didn't know this.
I love how some of you get antsy when someone wants a feature you deem inappropriate to a personal device.
No one's antsy. People are merely pointing out things they perceive to be facts. Also a lot of people don't want one particular device to do everything because it normally weakens the quality of the whole. You could just as easily expect cellphones to have such multi-user capability (and maybe some do?), but it doesn't make it a practical thing to do. Any portable device is inherently intended to be a more personal device, whether all users see it that way or not. For most, I don't think making a device like an iPad a communal device will ever really work, especially if all users in the household use it as their primary media device. Two people can't sit on the couch randomly surfing or reading at the same time. It's hard for two people to share a PC if they both use it heavily, after all.
You can view inboxes separately in the mail app. Just select and individual inbox to display rather than displaying "all inboxes."
You have to have an iTunes account and connect it at least once to intialize the iPad. You have to go through iTunes to install OS updates. You have use iTunes to back up your iPad so it can be restored.
It's hardly a post PC app.
And you can probably do a lot of that without iTunes by jailbreaking, but he was talking business purchases and they aren't going to buy and jailbreak iPads and void warranties, get into legal issues for violating terms of service etc.
Aint that the truth! Apple could easily implement some kind of multiuser login - BUT they want people to buy the product, even if in reality, iPads are shared in most households...
Why not set up the email account but don't enter a password, then when others use it they cannot send/receive emails. Just set the account to not delete from server when you delete from iPad and that way, you can keep a clear iPad inbox and only you can enter the password when you want to use it, and when you're on your computer you still have the emails saved away.
Simples?
Simples?
Personally, I don't see Apple opening iOS to a multi-user experience. What they should do -- or rather, what I would like for them to do -- is give us the ability to password-protect any app (or folder) we choose. I cringe anytime I let my little nephews play with my iPhone and I see their little fingers heading towards that Picture app. Surely, the implementation of this cannot be difficult.
Oh, and I'm also hoping iOS 5 will finally give us the freedom to delete the weather/stock/compass/etc apps.
Oh, and I'm also hoping iOS 5 will finally give us the freedom to delete the weather/stock/compass/etc apps.