[ipad] Prevent App movement

[mr_anthony]

Good afternoon everybody,

 

Is there a way to prevent app movements on the home screen without jailbreaking it?

 

In my public school I manage a cart of 30 iPads manually using Apple Configurator 2 and I am trying to figure out how to prevent students from accidentally rearranging the home screen icons.

 

From several google searches I found one ehow video (

) which suggests a jailbreaking but I don't like jailbreaking for various reasons.

 

Is there something I am overlooking?

 

Thank you in advance!

[atcoates]

Are you specifying a home screen layout in configurator? It's been a while since I used it but I know with our MDM you can't rearrange the screen.

 

https://help.apple.com/configurator/mac/2.7/#/cadbf9c2a0

Edited April 16, 2018 by atcoates

[mr_anthony]

Are you specifying a home screen layout in configurator? It's been a while since I used it but I know with our MDM you can't rearrange the screen.

 

https://help.apple.com/configurator/mac/2.7/#/cadbf9c2a0

 

Yes in Apple Configurator I've prearranged the icons to a certain order using the homescreen layout in the blueprint but I can not prevent students who use the device from accidentally rearranging the icons. As for MDM's we aren't using one.

[atcoates]

I think we found the same from memory. When the ipads came back in we had to refresh them to get the screen back how we wanted it. It was one of the reasons we moved to mdm. It might be something that they sort in a later version of AC. We use Meraki MDM, think you can get a free trial and try on one device and see if it does what you want. There are also plenty of free MDM solutions out there.

 

https://meraki.cisco.com/blog/2017/01/instant-systems-manager-free-30-day-trials/

[mr_anthony]

I think we found the same from memory. When the ipads came back in we had to refresh them to get the screen back how we wanted it. It was one of the reasons we moved to mdm. It might be something that they sort in a later version of AC. We use Meraki MDM, think you can get a free trial and try on one device and see if it does what you want. There are also plenty of free MDM solutions out there.

 

https://meraki.cisco.com/blog/2017/01/instant-systems-manager-free-30-day-trials/

 

Forgive my obstinacy but is there a way to do it withOUT using an MDM. Here's the thing, I don't want to assume that an MDM will solve all my problems because usually when I assume that a particular problem is caused by X, Y, and Z, I make myself look like donkey.

 

While it is my understanding that sometime down the road an MDM solution will be acquired I just want to have things working properly before we make that move.

 

Regardless, thank you for your advice and help, I do appreciate it.

[atcoates]

I'm guessing unless there is another piece of local software that you can use other than AC2 it would have to be an MDM solution. Most development in management is going into MDM not locally hosted. We have moved from AC2 to MDM at all my sites and all it's done is solve all of the problems we had with AC2.