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Most people here must really live alone when offering indignant replies that someone would actually let others use their iPad. I am married with 3 kids and we have one iPad. We have to ..... 'share' ...! We each have our own email accounts and thought we could sign in from 'mail' and not safari....yahoo...login...
So there is really no way to logout from mail? I activated it with my email address, so my wife and kids can read and send email from my account? I think the competitors don't have these kind of shortcomings and lapse of security issues!
Android devices work much the same way. In fact, in order to remove the main Gmail account from an Android device, you have to factory reset it. So, like Apple, it appears that other manufacturers also view tablets as single user devices.
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My perception was that apple was a user friendly trend setter, not an android copy. They charge way more and represent themselves as superior, so they should be different... And better.
Actually, iPad pricing is fairly competitive. And, I agree, they are much netter than other tablets.
A thousand per unit which I paid is not really and so far all the sites I looked at with videos...many don't play...flash...and all the things like not being able to logout of mail lead me after only a few days of ownership to question the validity of that statement vs propaganda.
Don't get me wrong, I have a MacBook Pro, an iTouch, and now an iPad...I just wish apple would work more on the comparability issues with safari and little things like a logout on mail. Most families cannot afford for each member to have their own iPad...nor should they need to. That would be wasteful.
The only way that I know how to log out of yahoo email completely is to go to your iPad settings, then Safari and clear the cookies, cache and history, then next time you try and open your yahoo, you have to sign in again. It's a bit of a pain to remember to do this all the time, but it's either that or stay logged in for anyone else who uses your iPad to see.
Hi . I jus had a problem with it too .
You can't logout , but u can disable it. Go to :
1.SETTINGS .
2.MAIL,CONTACTS,CALENDARS
3. Click on yahoo (or whatever email you have) at the top
4. Then turn 'MAIL' off .
-your welcome :)
Clearly the ability to logout and force re-authentication independent of the entire system is needed for email. This is well known security practice regardless of the number of users of any system. This is an ipd security risk that should be, and can be, easily reduced. It needs fixed.
If you're concerned, use your email's web-based access. Then, you can easily log out when you are done, clear browser history and caches and feel secure.
If you want to let Apple know about features you'd like to see added, use the appropriate link on the Feedback page:
By the way, this thread has been dormant for about 6 months. I suspect most of the original participants have long since moved on.
Best of luck
You can sign out of Yahoo Email. Go to the bottom left corner, you will see a 'person' icon and your name, click on that and you get the 'sign out' option.
Thank you, but I don't use Yahoo. And, yes, it's the same advice I just gave to the previous poster. However, the original thrust of the thread is that you can't log out of the built in Mail app.
Best of luck.
Thanks but I am not concerned. Regardless if folks have 'moved on' (geeze...) the security risk exists on the Ipad and needs fixed.
The iPad can be password protected. It's designed as a singlle user device. Password protect it; security issue solved.
How to logout/logoff from the email account ?
