Password protect Mail on iPad

Opus ... iCloud is not a good example because it is automatically configured to work through Mail. But Gmail, HotMail, your ISP's email service are all good example of web email services that would allow you to be completely confidential, because the access is password end.

Hello folks,

I totally agree with You. But these seniors or administrators here delete a lot of posts from me and many other people. They want to suggest the impression, that this was an old thread nobody is really interested.

The truth is that this is one of the most missed features for the iPad. They always speak about not a multi-user-device and why this shouldn't be interesting. They told You that this forum is only for technical advices, but didn't gave any by themselves. If You look to the header of this threat You think the last reply is more than 2 months old, but the truth is, that there are 20 replies in 10 hours.

I started here only 3 days ago first very calm, but in minutes I was attacked by a rude senior. Now I think it's time for stepping deeper into Apple forum. I start thinking about writing articles about the people here outside the forum.

Patrick_not_happy_with_Apple wrote:

The truth is that this is one of the most missed features for the iPad. They always speak about not a multi-user-device and why this shouldn't be interesting. T

Please cite reliable evidence for the idea that this is one of the "most missed features". Please provide citiations for where Apple (I assume that's who you mean by "They") has advertised the iPad as a multiuser device.

You have been given, repeatedly, the only answers possible to your question: 1) Passcode your iPad or 2) find another email app that offers passcode protection (And you haven't engendered nearly enough goodwill for anyone to want to do the research for you) or 3) use a web based email interface you can log out of. No one here has the ability to change the design on the iPad or tell you when Apple might decide to change it.

Please, please, take your opinions and write about them in some place more appropriate. I wish you the best of luck on such an endeavour.

In German Apple shows TV spots in which they show the cool iPad laying there and many members of a family use it. That's OK. Nobody needs a multi-user device with separate accounts for different members of the family. But e-mail is the very private feature in Europe. It's not allowed to open letters of family members. So real letters reach my home closed, only emails on Apple device don't. This is my iPad and I'm the only one who should use this for private things. But I don't want to have this device always locked. Because I use it 90% for things that could be public.

I have an unsolved problem and didn't find a solution, this is why I hoped for help in this forum. But You write me that I should search more time for a third party app because it's not the job of this forum.

What is the job of this forum? Helping newbies that are to lazy for reading the iPad manual?

People like You are responsible for the upcoming Anti-Apple attitude. Maybe in the US Apple is still number one, but in other countries they are loosing a lot share of the markets. Android has more than a 4 times higher share here.

Not long ago Oracle lost a lawsuit about their terms of a license at the EuGH it's the common Supreme Court of all European countries. Now every European has the right to sell their old software license to other people. If people quit with Apple they sell their apps and buy other devices.

Patrick_not_happy_with_Apple wrote:

I have an unsolved problem and didn't find a solution, this is why I hoped for help in this forum. But You write me that I should search more time for a third party app because it's not the job of this forum.

What is the job of this forum? Helping newbies that are to lazy for reading the iPad manual?

The remit of this forum is to provide technical support. However, as noted, we are all voluteers, your peers. We are under no obligation to research solutions for you that are beyond our knowlege should we chose not to. As previously mentioned, you are just as capable, at least in theory, as I am, of researching apps that might meet your needs or of contacting your email service provider to find out if they have a web interface. You obviously have the free time to do the research.

I searched more than a week every day a lot of hours for such an app. But I only found some very bad rated apps from unknown companies from not reliable countries. I'm not using Micky Mouse Mail. I'm using different mail accounts from different companies and I do need to have certificates installed to access them. I need IMAP, POP3 and Exchange Active Sync. Everything goes fine with the iPad, but this missing feature makes me angry since more than a month.

On the other hand I notice that more and more companies are against Apple products. In stores some years ago they start to install Apple corners, but since Christmas they are reducing the Apple space. In some large shops Apple only has a table like an normal office table. But they offer more than 50 other tablets. Please turn off Your pink Apple glasses!

Please think about Your car! If Your car has a start button for the engine that needs to be pushed when the doors are unlocked. How do You act when You come home from shopping? All member leave the car lock the car walk as group with the packets into the house, go as group back to the car open it and repeat this procedure many times.

Now You ask for a separate start protection and they recommend You, oh you can change the setting of Your car. There is a second lock on the bottom of the trunk and from now on You must use it in combination with a lock under the hood. And every time You want to start the engine, You have to open the trunk, empty it if something is inside, put the key inside, then open the hood, put the key inside and then press the start button.

What do You think about such recommendation?

Apple does great products but they have some weak points that make the live for the users very complicate. I'm also running Android and Windows 8 that have a lot of weak points, too. I'm sure that this company will win who cares most for the customers. At the moment the iPad could be my choice, if...

No one touches my iPad or my iPhone but me. And, even though I have Guest Access enabled on my computer, no one touches it I don't trust.

Your car analogy is incomprehensible.

My point remains the same. Your complaining here will get you no other answers than the ones you have already gotten. In fact, continued complaining is likely to get more of your posts deleted. It's time for you to move on.

When do I finally get my iPhone with wings? Apple is not giving me that iphone and I asked for that first time about two years ago. Back then my car was old, but now it is even older. I am tired driving an old car, I d rather fly to work using my iphone. May have to leave Apple, cause of that. 😉

Vote with your money, don't like something go someplace else.

Why not treat your iPad like a public computer? When you hand it over to somebody else then delete your email account from the iPad. When you get it back from the kids, workmates etc just add the account back in. It is just like logging on to a friend's/stranger's computer to access your e-mail. You need to know your password of course and, hoefully nobody else knows that. All this is done under Settings, Mail, Contacts, Calenders. Hassle? Not really. It becomes part of your log on procedure in time. Yes, you don't get new e-mail alerts in real-time but, er, you are not using the iPad at the moment, they are!

The problem is that You can't save an account without password. I have a lot of different accounts, too. So I must check a lot of mail accounts regularly with a lot of switches and passwords. It's very complicate. I want to live easy. Lay down an iPad somewhere, use it as music player, TV magazine, for just a look at the web or play a game. It should be as simple as possible, but if I get an email to one of my accounts I want to see, that I got a new message and then log in. But these professional mail accounts should be private. Every other action in my home could have been done by everybody. Also two, three, four or more iPad couldn't help me. because if I don't want to read a mail I don't want to type a passcode. I am very open to other people, but for mail, that's not possible, because of the contracts with the companies.

At the Android platform You can customize, that You have to enter a passcode for selected apps. This is very clever, because You can protect a lot of different private apps with just one code. My special business apps have their own password protection, it's thousand times better than Apples mail app, but not so comfortable than at Android. Android have other weak points, that's why I bought the iPad. But this missing feature is so important for me and many people in the consulting business, that we are checking every new other tablet.

Thanks for Your efforts, but they don't help me. I also have the iPhone 5, but I don't want to carry the device with me at home. Also it's too small for working, and this is why I bought the iPad. As I wrote above I also have other devices, but in most cases I liked the iPad except this little missing feature.

I searched for a solution to exactly the same problem for sometime. This was essential for me as I use my ipad for work but also wish to allow my children to use it, but without accessing sensitive work

I found there is a solution, and it works perfectly by simply protecting your chosen app(s) with a PIN. Unfortunately it isn't a solution that the iPad offers natively, and i suspect the solution isn't one that I can mention on the forum (although it is legal).

It's certainly technically possible, and its a feature I hope that Apple will implement in a future release of iOS, so users don't have to resort to non Apple methods to gain security features that really should be implemented natively.

I too have searched for a solution to this issue. Just returned from the Apple Store and they could not provide me with an answer. My reason for a password protected email programm is the following.

My company allows (likes) for people to have their work e-mail on their mobile device, but therefore requires a passcode lock on the device (so no strangers can access company mail).

Since I do not like to have a passcode on my phone, that I have to unlock whenever I want to check the weather or whatever, I would like to only restrict mail... I find it strange that Apple has not added Mail to the restictions panel (while Siri, iTunes and Camera are added).

Fingers crossed that it will happen on another update...

If your company requires you to have passcode on the phone, they are better equipped to address your concern.

But if they require passcode, I see it unlikely they will agree to anything less.

BTW, to previous poster, I sincerely hope that no native necessity to enter mail password will be implemented, since I really do not want to enter password every time I enter my mail. If I did, I d just use web interface.

fromsouth: Nobody ever asked for a mandatory password for Mail... but many have asked for an optional one, to no avail.

TheDesmodus: "Fingers crossed that it will happen [...]" - obviously it won't, EVER: the technology is there and the demand as well, both since YEARS now - ergo they just don't WANT to do it. So don't hold your breath, it simply won't happen.

1european wrote:

... the technology is there and the demand as well, both since YEARS now - ergo they just don't WANT to do it. So don't hold your breath, it simply won't happen.

Perhaps the demand is not as great as you think?