How do I setup a home control use iPad?

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How do I setup a home control use iPad?

I want to setup my iPad for controlling home automation. This means, the iPad should only have a few apps everybody (family, friends, and cleaners) can see and control. These may be: App to control my KNX network, Video door app, CCTV app, and some others like weather app.

So how can this be done to separate these few apps available for public use, and all other apps and privacy personal information associated to my Apple ID, like access to App Store and passwords and all other information?

Thanks.

iPad (6th gen) WiFi

Posted on May 25, 2021 2:42 PM

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Answer 1

MoonJ.

Community Specialist

May 27, 2021 10:50 AM in response to cristovao_portugal

Understood cristovao_portugal,

Once you download the necessary apps, you can go into the Settings and log out of the iTunes & App Store and iCloud. This way, someone would need your log in information to access them, as well as those functions like email and message not working.

Alternatively, you can create a "spare" Apple ID for the use of re-downloading those necessary apps then log into said apps with your normal login. This would be an option if those apps aren't paid or subscription based. Then, your personal account never needs be signed in.

How to create a new Apple ID - Apple Support

Cheers!

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Answer 2

i_rina

Community Specialist

May 27, 2021 8:05 AM in response to cristovao_portugal

Thanks for those details, cristovao_portugal,

Guided Access, which is the kiosk mode, is an option. However you are correct in that it only allows a single app.

Use Guided Access with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support

If the apps in question cannot be bundled under the Home functions of the iPad that could then be locked with Guided Access, then you would need to have these apps on a separate device. Unfortunately, the iPad is unable to have separate user accounts where you could separate family apps from personal apps.

Thanks for using Apple Support Communities!

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Answer 3

ShannonM1

Community Specialist

May 26, 2021 11:25 AM in response to cristovao_portugal

Hello cristovao_portugal,

It seems you'd like to let others share control of your home.

Check out what's supported with sharing your home with the Home app in the article below:

Share control of your home - Apple Support

Kind regards.

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Answer 4

May 26, 2021 5:15 PM in response to ShannonM1

Thank you ShannonM1, but I am not using Homekit app.

Basically, I would like to have an iPad centralised at home, on the wall, and where people are allowed to interact with a few apps. These would be the set of apps that control the house, such as:

1) App to control lights, shutters, etc,

2) App for the video door,

3) App for CCTV,

4) App for the Alarm

5) And some others like a weather app, for instance.

The question is, how can I give access to these apps, leaving out all other apps the iPad has, and all the information associated with my private Apple ID (configurations, App Store, …)?

It would be like a Kiosk mode, but with more than one App! I think Kiosk mode only works with one app, right?

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Answer 5

May 27, 2021 10:27 AM in response to i_rina

Thank you i_rena,

But even if I have an iPad with just the apps needed, I will still have the problem of somebody doing things with my Apple ID ( seeing passwords, buying things, seeing emails, …). Isn’t there a way of blocking this part?

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Answer 6

May 27, 2021 11:52 AM in response to MoonJ.

I will try this! Thanks.

Do you by chance know if there exists an App that simulates kiosk mode with more than 1 app? Like having a list of permitted apps and a password to enter and exit that mode?

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