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Guided Access is a new feature in iOS 6 that helps users with hearing, learning, vision, and mobility disabilities use iOS devices. With Guided Access, certain areas and features of any app can be disabled. You can also prevent a user from exiting an app by disabling the hardware buttons and touchscreen sensor.

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iOS 7 iPad Guided Access Text Areas dont show keyboard

For the life of me I cant figure this out - please help me :) Basically I'm hoping to use some ipads as a kiosk solution to gather data in public areas however whenever I enable guided access mode and tap a textArea the soft keyboard doesnt show…
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PDF not opening in UIDocumentInteractionController when guided access enabled

I'm working with a UIDocumentInteractionController in iOS 7 to preview a PDF which is installed as part of the app bundle. Everything works great when I load the file using; NSURL *url = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:pdfName…
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iOS guided access keyboard bug

I'm development an app through titanium. When I was running it on actual iPad, I got a bug that keyboard cannot close if guided access was enabled. Scenario: Guided Access is on in settings Focus on a TextField, keyboard shows up Triple click on…
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Launch phone calls and show a call screen from guided access?

I have a "home screen-replacement" app on Android for people with eyesight problems and I'm considering making a similar App for iOS. Since home screen replacements don't exist in iOS, I'm thinking of optimizing my app for "guided access" or "single…
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Disable power button for iPad in MDM Single App Mode

If I set up an iPad to use the iOS guided access feature then it is possible to disable the home button AND the power button. This means the device can't be locked by a user. But if I activate single app mode via MDM locking the device remains…
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using guided access in iPhone 6 programmatically

Until now asper my knowledge it was not possible to restrict the app from exiting. User could press the home button and app will exit. Then came multitasking and when we press home button app would go in background, but on long press user can still…
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Is it possible to record the screen when Guided Access is enabled?

For the education application that I am developing at the moment, I need to record from the camera and the application screen. App is using Guided Access mode. Recording microphone + camera is simple: var captureSession =…
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On Guided Access mode letting device running more than a single app

Is it possible to let user to launch only certain apps by enabling a custom Guided Access from an application? Guided Access locks iOS device only for a single app but what I want to do is locking the device for certain apps chosen by the user. I…
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iOS11: Is it possible to launch notification when device is under guided access?

I have a code that allows the device to run an update. It works perfectly when the ipad is not under guided access for information under iOS11 (and it worked under iOS10 & guided accesss): - (void)viewDidLoad { ... …
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Enterprise iOS app in Guided Access

We have alot of iPads on different locations, running an enterprise app in Guided Access. Is it possible to auto update the app, our remote access the iPad to update?
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How to stop Guided Access interfering with navigation buttons

When Guided Access is enabled, buttons on a UINavigationBar don't activate when you tap on one side of them (and the button does confusingly still dim and highlight as you tap). You can actually see it in the iOS built-in apps. eg: iPhone (iOS…
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The “Guided Access is Enabled" message appears with every HTML form submission in iOS 8

I have a website set as a "home screen" app and accessed via Guided Access. The site contains a form. A message will appear every time there is an HTML form submission: "Guided Access is Enabled. Triple-click the home button to exit." This message…
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Steps for requesting the guided access session for iOS

I am trying to send request for Guided access session through this method: UIAccessibilityRequestGuidedAccessSession(YES, ^(BOOL didSucceed). For this I added key for singleAppMode in config file. But every time i am getting else condition only in…
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Meraki guided access not working on iPAD

I am trying for for Single App mode for one of my App using "Meraki" MDM, registered the device on the MDM site and created the profile. I am using below code as suggested in this site, the code works fine on simulator but not on…
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iPad Kiosk application // Guided Access and empty Battery

We want to use iPads with iOS7 for an POS/Kiosk application. We use the guided access mode to restrict the customers to one app. The store will shut down the power during weekends, so the iPads will run out of battery. This raises several…
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