Lock iPad to One Website to Deploy it as a Kiosk

  • August 10, 2018

iPhones and iPads are used by organizations for the official purpose to showcase the product or service offering in an interactive and interesting manner to prospective customers. It can be a B2C or a B2B product, iPads are convenient to display the necessary information to your customers.

Your customers might be looking to use iPads in a public environment, to integrate into a booth display or mounted as a kiosk in their retail stores, or in restaurants and hotels, hospitals, or at conferences. And, iPads provide the utility for that purpose as Apple provides outstanding features to cater to such requirements.

lock ipad to one website
Lock iPad to One Website

Read More: How to Lockdown an iPad to Single App Kiosk Mode

However, your customers might not want the customers at retail stores or restaurants, to have complete access to all the other iPad’s functionalities. Even, they do not want their employees to check their Facebook account or play Angry Birds on those devices which they use it to display product or service offerings or any other business presentation. Many times, intentionally or unintentionally, the devices get stolen, misplaced, or lost, which is a threat if accessed by any person outside the organization. As a result of which, data, content, and devices are at high risk.

Luckily, there’s an easy way to lock your iPad in kiosk mode that locks down device access to a single application or one website. So, if your business is planning to use an iPad/iPhone in a public environment, you probably need a simple solution to prevent app switching or altering setting access, so that users are focused on the information which is being displayed.

How can you Lock iPad to One Website?

It may sound difficult initially, but it is very easy to lock an iPad to one website with an iPad MDM Solution – Scalefusion. So, how Scalefusion does that? The answer is very simple, it provides a feature of the whitelisting website.

Whitelisting of websites gives you the flexibility to allow only certain websites to be functional on your iOS devices. Additionally, you can choose to place shortcuts (Web-clips) for the whitelisted websites and choose to open them in full screen and run as a default website.

You get other additional settings as well like,

1. Home Screen Settings in which you can control,
2. Whether you want to show or hide the bottom navigation bar
3. Set your preference to show it in full-screen mode or not and
4. Whether you want to keep the exit option visible or not
5. Allow/ Restrict users to use Touch Id for unlocking the device
6. Set the screen timeout settings according to your requirements
7. Set a constant screen brightness

And the number of other features, which help you to turn your iPads or iPhones into a kiosk by locking into a single website and restricting the number of features.

The greatest advantage of Scalefusion is that you can do all these remotely from a central web-based dashboard over Cloud. It enables this control for the multiple numbers of devices that may be deployed at various locations.

Further, you can know in-depth on whitelisting website

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Additionally, restrictions on iOS will guide you step by step on all restrictions you can provide to lock the iPad to one website.

With the rapid growth in enterprise devices, it’s necessary to manage and secure their devices more effectively using Device Management software. Manage Devices more relentlessly not only for Android & iOS devices but also for Windows using our Windows 10 Kiosk Mode solution.

Read More – How to Allow Only One Website in Windows 10

Thousands of businesses rely upon Scalefusion for managing their mobile device, desktops, laptops and other endpoints

Nema Buch is a Research & Marketing professional, also writes for Scalefusion on Enterprise Mobility trends, SaaS, and different Industry Verticals.
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