Just got a brand new iPad. Is there a way natively or via another app to password protect the Mail application? I'd love to be able to let others use the iPad for internet browsing or games, but with Mail if you click it you can get right into all my email accounts with all my data. Would love to be able to have extra security on top of the Mail program to even get it to open up.
Many thanks in advance for the help.
Believe me, submitted multiple times from me alone 😉 Was just trying to help him understand that multi-user doesn't necessarily mean a full blown user account logon system.
Dah-veed, the ipad is NOT a single user device. As this thread (and many others like it) show, in the REAL WORLD, multiple users use it. Apple has parental controls - therefore it expects a parent and a child to use it. That would be a multi-user device then!
If apple has designed it to be a single-user device, well I guess that would be a case of poor design?
Given that this thread is about having a password protected application, why has the focus shifted to having a multi-user operating system? I can imagine that is more difficult to implement, but its not what people are asking for here. We simply want to be able to pass the ipad to someone else without them being able to read all our emails. Do we remember when pc's ran on single-user operating systems? Guess what - all the mail programs still had a password facility!
If what you are asking for was easily doable, a 3rd party developer would have done it by now and made a fortune selling their app to everyone who wants it to function this way. Yes, a 3rd party mail app that opens and immediately requires a password to go any further into the app, as well as requiring the password again anytime someone returns to the app.
And then if it could be done with a mail app, why not a messages app, and a contacts app? There would be 3rd party developers making a killing and laughing at Apple all the way to the bank.
There are literally tens of thousands of iOS apps, but none with the funcionality that you want. Why?
well, in one of your earlier posts you gave your answer to those same questions. But I don't see why if Apple can restrict some of their built-in apps that come with the iPad, why over a couple years between different versions of iPads they couldn't allow restrictions on all of their built-in apps, since they are all out of their code base. It's not like they don't know how.
Whose to say that a 3rd party developer hasn't tried and been shot down by Apple for the reasons you mentioned previously? I know I can't say that it's never been tried like you can, as I don't know every app Apple's ever rejected. Plus in one of your earlier posts you alluded to why a 3rd party developer wouldn't be allowed to make such an app anyway.
But why would a 3rd party need to do that when the functionality already exists, built in to the iOS, but only available for a small portion of the programs.
Dahveed, i'm not trying to argue with you, just hoping that you see and understand my point of view. Even though there are thousands of discussions online just like this one about users wishing for this feature, I'm not holding my breathe Apple will ever fix it, since it's been at least 2 generations of iPads i've had that don't do this.
Possibly because Apple controls and vets all of the apps in the app store?
Unless you are trying to suggest it is IMPOSSIBLE to have a password protected mail application? (In which case, see my earlier comment about poor design.)
Secure Gmail for .99 cents
That seems to come highly rated and allow multiple user accounts. Iy is only for Gmail accounts.
The same developer appears to have another app, Secure Webmail, that will work with multiple email providers, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, Gnail, etc. That app is US$1.99 and has a high rating as well.
This may be what some folks want.
I am also looking for a way to lock my Mail app, I have a lot of people use my iPad 3 (my wife, kids and people at work) and it is left on my desk at work so that people can go to the sketches I have made for different projects without having to find me or have me unlock the iPad and then stand over them to make sure they don't look at the 'wrong' things. Ideally some way of assigning a password/swipe to any moveable app would be brilliant.
I dont want staff looking at my personal photos and likewise I don't want friends and family looking at work emails.
Regarding the muliple-user debate, this is completely irrelevant to the question the OP and myself are asking but for the record I find it unbelievable that people stating it isn't a 'multi-user' device have only ever allowed their iPad to be used by themselves.
Perhaps a better method of making those sketches available to folks would be to use one of the fee cloud services; such as Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, SkyDrive, MediaFire, etc, where they can view the sketches in a shared folder from their own computer and not have to mess with your iPad.
You are missing the point Dahveed. Why should Moto 70 have to compromise his ipad, not use some of its functionality and have to use cloud based services instead, just because his ipad lacks a basic function which just about every other mail device has.
I think Moto 70 summed it up perfectly in his last sentance. The iPad is 30-odd cm long, 20cm wide and weighs 600g. Did apple expect us to carry it in our back pockets?
Actually, it is you guys who are missing the point. You are describing a laptop or a netbook. If that is what you need, then buy one. But that isn't what Apple wanted to create with the iPad. Go to All Things D 10 and watch some of the videos of Tim Cook, Apple CEO, describing what Apple is about with its products. There is one video where he speaks about the iPad and Apple not wanting it dragged down with the legacy thinking of it as a computer.
http://allthingsd.com/video/?catname=d10
So the bottom line is, if you can't buy into what Apple wants to create, then buy another product and stop moaning that this one doesn't do what you want it to do. It is never going to do what you want it to do, because you are thinking about it as a computer and Apple is making a post computer device. Apple presents what the iPad is in its commercials and it is not what you guys want to force it to be with your commentary here.
Sorry but that is just pretentious rubbish David. A post computer device? Does that mean all the Android tablets, and future Windows mobile devices are not computers either? Are they post computer devices? No, they are computers and they are designed to be handed from person to person. If the iPad can't cope with that, well despite what the suits at Apple might say, that makes it (in this one respect at least) INFERIOR.
Then don't buy one.
I'm at a loss as to why you are here arguing with us?
If you can't help any of the people that are asking a very specific question then why bother posting what your view on a completely irrelavent issue is?
I don't care that you do not allow anybody else to use your iPad so your opinion on the role an iPad should fill or by whom it should or shouldn't be used is of no concern to those of us that are looking for a specific feature. I presume that seeing as you view the iPad to be so perfect in its current state you'll not be installing iOS 6 and with it the new features it will bring?
One thing that does concern me though is that a simple search of the 'net brings up the same question of being able to lock mail on the iPad by so many people so why do you insist on trying to belittle our needs in your patronising and 'superior-than-thou' tone?
God knows I hope that any subsequent question/s I have in this forum is met by more respectful people than you have so far proven to be.
You must be smoking crack, I have been nothing less than nice to you. And I have pointed you to videos where you can hear from the CEO of the company that designs and manufactures the device in question why it was designed and what it was designed to do. So I point out to you that based on that info, what you want it to do is outside the parameters of the plans Apple has for the iPad. Sorry, but that isn't being patronizing or superior-than-thou. BTW, I am doing the best that I can in English, it isn't my mother tongue.
If you need secure mail, there are two apps that can help you with that issue. Both are by the same developer, one for Gmail and one for multiple types of mail service providers, as long as the provider is webmail capable.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/secure-gmail/id496041864?mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/secure-webmail/id510417578?mt=8
Password protect Mail on iPad
