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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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Detect or react to Guided Access?

In an app we're creating, we need to add some extra screens to configure the app. It would be nice if we could add extra buttons on the opening screen of the app, that is only visible if the iPad is not in guided access. Is it possible to detect…
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Is there a way to deliver push notifications in iOS 11 during Guided Access?

Our iPad app relies on silent push notifications to trigger certain events, and is used by many of our users in Guided Access mode. This has worked well until iOS 11 which now seems to block delivery of push notifications while Guided Access is…
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iOS-Swift UIApplication.shared.isIdleTimerDisabled = true not working after review from AppStore

Trying to Achieve Stop the screen going to sleep on certain View Controller What I have done I have tested my app with the following code on a physical iPhone 6 running on iOS 12.1.12. I set the phone Dislpay & Brigthness > Auto-Lock to 30 seconds.…
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Automatic OTA updates in an ios app which is locked down with guided access

My client needs to find a way to automatically push app updates to a number of iphone 3gs devices remotely. These devices will be in guided access mode so the users will only be able to access the app in question. I believe we have two option for…
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Using autonomousSingleAppModePermittedAppIDs and UIAccessibilityRequestGuidedAccessSession together with Meraki as MDM to enter single app mode

I have a small number of devices I've set as supervised using Apple Configurator. However I'm unable to get the app to successfully enter single app mode using the UIAccessibilityRequestGuidedAccessSession API. I created a configuration profile with…
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openURL phone call with Guided Access ON

I have a simple contacts app that is intended to operate in Guided Access / Single App Mode. When the user hits the contact the app initiates a phone call: [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:phoneURL]; Super simple and works fine with…
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iOS Guided Access: why does my app close overnight?

I'm writing an iOS application for enterprise deployment. The use case is that it is meant to run in the foreground in kiosk / guided access mode on iPads, and it must never ever close for as long as the OS is running (the iPads will be mounted on a…
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Guided Access App not available

I'm sometimes getting an error when starting my 'Guided Access' app which is locked down on the iPad using 'Apple Configurator'. It mostly happens after a hard reset, but not always. The error on screen is: Guided Access App not available. There's…
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Detecting home button press on iOS?

Is there any way to detect if the user has pressed the home button on iOS? Obviously if the app is running normally the app delegate methods gets called, but if the device is locked to an app (through Guided Access or an MDM-server) so the app…
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implement guided access on iPad using Mobile Device Management

I am stuck in this problem for two days now.. What I need to do is make a small iPad application that when the user launches, sends the iPad in kiosk mode/guided mode. I am required to use MDM for this (I am using Meraki for MDM …
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iPad in guided access (kiosk) mode screen goes off after 2 days

We have a client that runs our app in guided access mode. The app runs flawlessly for 2 days consecutively, but after that, the iPad suddenly lags, sometimes crashes and reopens, and after that, the screen goes black. If they press the home button…
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iOS device restarts with Guided Access Mode turned-on

I have a few iPad, that run an app in Guided Access Mode. What happens when a device is restarted due to some reason (like running out of battery)? Will the Guided Access Mode kick in again when the device starts up, with the same app running? Is it…
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Stranger Behavior with UIAccessibilityIsGuidedAccessEnabled Bool - SWIFT

My app wants to recognize whether or not the user has gone into guided access mode. I currently have a NSNotification setup which triggers a boolean provided by apple but for some reason it is always providing a false negative. …
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Possible to Automatically Update an Enterprise App While Running in Guided Access Mode?

I made an app deployed internally at my company. It is placed outside conference rooms and allows the user to see if it's open, schedule room time, view other rooms, etc. Given its nature and use, the app is always the active one on the device and…
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How to stop status bar appearing after waking in Guided Access on iOS7?

We've had an issue reported where the status bar sometimes appears overlaid on our app after sleeping and waking the iPad. Our setup is as follows: Our app is landscape only (left and right) I've enabled guided access on the device I've enabled the…
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