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.
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.
True. If apple wants to reach the level of security that my bank apps have, they will have to fix the email security. The email security on iPad is higher risk than bank apps. Personally, I expect more. Perhaps you do not. I still maintain and expect high security - it needs fixed.
New555 wrote:
the apple philosophy of not being meant to share is ludicrous. My entire family shares one.
This is not Apple's philosophy - it is your statement and your opinion. If you want to share your iPad with your family - have it at and go to town!
Just don't complain that it does not have a function to password protect your email account - since it was in fact originally designed to be a single user device.
That's what I meant, single use device. And that philosophy is ridiculous. It is not hard to program log out buttons. Most apps have it. Apple just wants everyone to have their own and pay accordingly.
A single user device does not mean that everything inside should be left gaping.. Would locking the gate be enough to protect the entire house? Why then is the Fidelity/USAA/Bank of America app providing a logout button for their iPad app if they agreed with this philosophy? iPad will always have multiple users (within the family mostly) using it and the mail app has to be fixed to cater to this requirement. If one wishes to keep their email open forever just add the stupid checkbox 'keep me signed in'. Email like it or not is as important to logout off just as financial applications.
I cant believe we have wasted several hundred hours of our collective time while it takes less than 20 minutes to add and test a logout functionality in Mail app. And finally doesnt it "rub" against the apple user-intuitive philosophy? Gaarsh!
I completely agree. Apple should consider this and push an update with the next OS update. So for now, we can use an app. For me, the Yahoo ap. works OK for this, but I wish I could just use the dedicated Mail icon and be able to sign out of Mail.
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!
What you percieve as a security issue is because you are trying to use the device in a manner it was not designed for.
Other than sending feedback to Apple, there's not much else you can do.
Matt
I think I got round this by changing the password for that mail account to something incorrect so if you try to turn the email account back on it won't let you without signing in. Then when you get your device back you can change it back to the correct password.
The only thing you can do is after use, turn off the mail on the settings and anyone who wants to open up the mail will have to log in. If they don't know the log in, then they cannot read your mail. Go to "Settings" click "Mail, Contacts, Calendars"and you will see the different email accounts. Click on the arrow on the right for each one and turn the mail off. If anyone clicks on the Mail Icon on the home page, the mail menu will open and you have to choose which mail you want to open and you will be presented with a login requirements. It's not foolproof but it can prevent anyone who tries to use it when you are not around. Alsoif the would be user doesn't know anything about iPads.
I think everyone on this thread is missing the point, big time.
OK my wife and kids can see my email, not a big concern to me personally, but what if someone stole my iPhone or iPad? I keep both in my bag as I travel through London - bags get stolen in London every minute of the day.
What security is there? A 4 digit password - are you kidding? A half decent theif (or scumbag as I like to call them) will walk past that in seconds... Then what have they got? My email account? That is shocking!
Also, when I delete my Gmail emails on my MBP they don't delete on my iPad or iPhone (another thread I agree (Cloud?) and there may well be a fix for this) but my entire life is in that email account and I'd be dead as a doornail if some filthy identity theif got into it...
I can't believe there is no logout button - and why not? How stupid! What is the benefit? What is the cost?
All I can think of is that I am going to have to stop using Mail on my devices and go back to webmail or a Gmail app (which is what I am gong to download straight after this post).
I can't believe I'd never thought of this madness before.
I love Apple and have given them a hellava lot of my cash, but you know what, sometimes I bluddy hate 'em as well.
How to logout/logoff from the email account ?
