Instaling and removing Apps on iPads

[computer]

Previously I was using AC1 with iTunes and VPP. it was all working fine. I had policy restrictions on the iPads so the pupils could not install new one nor uninstall old ones. I would connect the ipads to the MAC book and then remove them( in supervised mode). However I have since upgraded to AC 2.5 I have set the setting to not allow deleting/installing of apps. So when I trried to install apps using AC 2.5 it would let me saying I had restrictions on. I therefore allowed removing/installing of the apps. so now pupils are able to hold down the icons and click the x to remove the app and also they can go to the app store and download new apps( although they will need the password which they are not going to get!)

 

I want to simply: be able to install apps and remove them using AC 2.5

I don't want pupils to be able to use the app store to install apps or remove them

 

Its probably something silly but I can't figure out what I'm missing or not selecting

[j224]

You need to use profiles in Configurator and set it to disable the App Store (which removes it from the iPad) and also there's a setting to prevent adding/removing of apps.

 

But when you come to add new apps using Configurator, you need to remove the profile first and then add it again after you've finished!

[computer]

Thanks for that. I tried that and it seemed to do the trick so I thought i'll erase everything from the ipad , remove the profiles from the blue print and just leave the apps.

it took a while to do and during this time I got a couple of apps saying they had no more copies and to use VPP to get more, a few said they require OS 10.3.

 

This is the strange bit ...all the standard apple stuff shows up but the apps I choose show up in a dark colour ( all of them saying waiting).

I disconnected the ipad once it finished. restarted it. now the apps show their names but they are dark and when I click them it says waiting. this is happening for all apps.

 

Also it takes a while to download the apps. Are the apps not downloaded once onto the MAC and the AC picks them from there? that's how it was with AC1

[j224]

Also it takes a while to download the apps. Are the apps not downloaded once onto the MAC and the AC picks them from there? that's how it was with AC1

 

 

AC2 works by downloading ALL apps from VPP (paid and free) rather than taking a local copy from iTunes like AC1 used to do. The advantage is that it will always download the latest version of the app. The downside is it takes a long time to download all the updates each time, especially if your WiFi is rubbish. Also, you don't always want to use the latest app version because it may be broken or incompatible with the older devices.

[computer]

Yep. I'm beginning to get a few of these apps saying you need version 10...blah blah. We just have ipad minis on version 9.3.5 so we are basically snookered. Tehre is an option to take the app from the local MAC but even they want to run properly especially garageband!

 

Thanks for your help so far. i'll trudge along best as I can

[j224]

I feel your pain. Half of ours are iPads 2's so won't go beyond 9.3.5 and it basically means just running old versions of the apps for as long as possible. The other half are iPad Airs and I'm trying to prevent those from updating to iOS 11 because it causes a lot of our apps to prompt for an Apple ID. Which I've started another thread about but not found a fix for yet.