Originally Posted by
Richardio Hi
We have a number of iPads we use for focus groups, iPads can be handy to get feedback in a confidential way instead of sheets of paper where their responses can be seen by other people.
Unfortunately the iPads get handled by all sorts of random people in our business and on occasions we found that somepeople from the focus group or our clients have accidently logged into the icloud on the iPad which automatically installs find my ipad and obviously locks the iPads onto the icloud forever unless the icloud account owner logs out or remotely unpairs the iPad.
Nope. A person has to enable iCloud on the device, sign in using their own Apple ID and passcode and then purposely enable the Find My iPhone/iPad/Mac option.
Now, is there anything we can do as a business to mitigate this? Can we install some sort of security certificate on which prevents/disables iCloud?
You can login to iCloud using the alleged business's Apple ID and passcode on ALL of the iPad devices and then enable restrictions to prevent the account from being changed.
We dont want to login to icloud as it creates privacy issues as the iPad can be tracked.
Why is that a bad thing? I'd like to think that your business would want to be able to track the devices in case of theft.
Furthermore can we get the iPad serials registered to us so that we can take the iPad instore to get the iclouds unlocked and reset for our use? I would have thought that owning a receipt will allow us to do this, but have found that not even the apple store receips have identifying serial numbers
The Apple Configurator app may be useful to you.