Any way to get rid of the middle finger emoji (iOS 9.1 update). When you have hundreds of iPads deployed to children ages 5-17, it's not really appropriate for education. Yet another visual that can promote bullying too...would love Apple fix this!
iPad 2, iOS 9.0.1
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Are you not using some type of deployment software on the iPads to configure and lock them down? You should be able to prevent things like changing the keyboards.
How do you keep the kids from using inappropriate language on their iPads? Or, more realistically, how do you deal with it when they do? What do you do when one of the kids uses that actual gesture? Although the emoji might be new, the problem really isn't.
Probably sales is the place to get heard.
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You can delete the Emoji keyboard which will block the ability to send emoji's but the device can still receive it if sent by someone else. I do not believe there is a way to just disable the middle finger emoji as it was just introduced in IOS9.1
Here is a walkthrough on how to disable the emoji keyboard:
https://www.gottabemobile.com/2015/10/21/how-to-disable-the-middle-finger-emoji- on-iphone/
Thanks jbhnrh. I should have indicated that I understand how to do it...but I don't think it's realistic for Apple's fix to be to put hands on hundreds of iPads. They want us to use them in K-12 education and then give us something like this to deal with. My MDM is trying to figure out if they can implement some sort of fix remotely so schools across the country don't have to walk around to every student iPad and manually turn off the Emoji keyboard (which they will just turn around and turn back on when you're finished).
I understand that. But we don't give them a list of inappropriate words to click on. You have to think from a parent's perspective too...when they say, "well you let that icon just be there..." Five, six, and seven year olds don't make a habit of using inappropriate language. In schools you have to reduce adding "fuel to the fire."
You can stop them from downloading certain things with device management. Which is why it would make more sense to offer the emoji keyboard additions as downloads to install instead of just dumping them on with an iOS update. The kids need the update to get rid of some of the bugs, etc... While we have deployment software, not every package can do everything as Apple doesn't allow them to....for instance, you can't get rid of/or hide iTunes....This falls in the same category right now.
hfricke wrote:
Five, six, and seven year olds don't make a habit of using inappropriate language. In schools you have to reduce adding "fuel to the fire."
A habit? No, but most of they try a few words to provoke a reaction. They calmly get told that it's not appropriate and the shock value is lost for most of them. These emjoi remind of a collection of very rude trading cards that were popular when I was in elementary school. Parents were appalled, kids thought they were hilarious until the next fad.
Middle Finger Emoji & Education iPads
