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.
Exactly, parental control, but its just not as developed of a feature as I would have hoped for. Seems like there's lot of questions on the boards dating back for years on this where most people just gave up. But that's one heck of a business model, Apple wanting me to buy a $800 device so a little kid can play an educational game for maybe an hour or two a week 😉
Sounds like Kyle might have an idea of something.
Thanks varjak and kyle. If you have any suggestions on other apps, let me know too. New to the whole app world so not sure which ones are good or not.
Just seems odd to me that in restrictions it would show some apps but not all apps to be able to restrict with an additional passcode.
I'd like a seperate passcode for mail too, but in the meantime Married's approach (reproduced below) has worked well for me for several months. It is like second nature to me now, taking approx 10-15 seconds to change between active and inactive mail accounts with restrictions on. I use this approach almost daily and more often on the weekends so my little ones have open slather on the iPad and I can rest assured they are not unintentionally messing with emails or sending emails about Moshi Monsters to my entire address book. Thanks again Married!
The fact is the IPHONE is a single user device, the IPAD isn't.
The fact is that, regardless of how you think it should be, the iPad IS a single-user device. That's how Apple has designed the OS. What you think should be the case is irrelevant to the situation as it stands. The OS on your PC was designed for multiple users; iOS was not.
You can comment to Apple on the matter here, if you wish:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html
Whether Apple will ever make any changes is something none of us here can say. Given the sales of the iPad, which far exceed those of all Android-based tablets combined, there doesn't seem to be much incentive at present, but Apple may well have something in the works; we just can't know. If the iPad as it stands doesn't meet your need, though, buy something that does.
Regards.
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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
jwwleigh wrote:
We're not talking multi-user OS or anything as complicated as that - just have a checkbox that says "Remember Password" for each account - checked it does, unchecked it doesn't - and needs to be entered each time if not checked - not rocket science people. Not interfering with anyone's vision of what the iPad should be.
Then you should let Apple know how you feel:
BiigJiim wrote:
The ipad is NOT a single user device.
From a security/personal info standpoint...
It was designed as a single user device. Period. What you want it to be doesn't change reality.
Thanks Kyle, I'll check it out. What did you search for to find them so i can look at all of them?
The iPad is not meant to be a multiuser device when it comes to privacy. So if you want to protect your privacy you need to use a passcode to allow sue of the iPad because you cannot restrict an app such as Mail with a passcode.
I don't think that's true. If the iPad is designed that way, why do they have the options under Settings...General....Restrictions to restrict access to certain programs? If it's a single user device, why would there be a need to restrict yourself out of apps on your own iPad.
Maybe someone else has some ideas. Thanks for the reply though.
The restrictions are a form of parental control of an iPad.
Do you see restrictions that make the Mail app private? No, just restrictions that keep a child from changing the accounts that have been configured.
If you want privacy, then the iPad is a single user device. If you want it as a family's shared device, then don't use it for anything private.
Have you considered going into the settings and deleteing the saved password to your mail app? If you do that, it will prompt you to enter the password when you enter the mail app. If you have it to someone else, they will need your mail password to get into your email...
No, it hides nothing if you haven't deleted it. It would just prevent Mail from accessing the account and downloading new mail.
You are correct, many folks have requested such control over a number of apps with content on the iPad, but if it were easy to produce such an app, wouldn't a 3rd party developer have taken that idea to the bank? Not being a developer I can't guess what prevents it from having happened.
Right, so that won't really work out for what i was looking for.
Seems odd that Apple would let you restrict some of the Apple apps but not all of them, although considering security would add to the development. and like you said, if it's intended to only be a single user device, I'm sure Apple feels that a passcode to unlock the entire device is sufficient.
Guys, let's stop the condescending (and not very intelligent) comments like Joseph's about the iPad not being a multiuser device, maybe you should try parenting etc etc.
The fact is the IPHONE is a single user device, the IPAD isn't. The only reason apple takes this stance is because it doesn't want to spend the money on a separate iOS for the iPad.
My iPhone lives in my pocket. My iPad usually lives in the lounge where family & friends can pick it up and use it. I would like to be able to access my business emails on it, because it is a great device for that, but I can't because some of those emails are private and not for other peoples' eyes.
People habe been asking for this feature in the forums for ages now. Even my pc (password protected, a genuinely single user device) has password protected email programs. So does Android. Which probably explains why Android devices have overtaken Apple ones in sales. Come on Apple, change your arrogant attitude and pull your finger out!
Password protect Mail on iPad
