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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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Guided Access and push

Is there a way to let my app receive push-messages, when it is in Guided Access? We have an app allways running Guided Access, but we need to send messages to it. Additionally, is there a way to remove all apps so you only have access to one or more…
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Unable to install a configuration profile for guided access from Apple Configurator 2

I am trying to install a mobileconfig file to enable guided access mode programmatically from my application. I have created the profile using Apple configurator 2 by adding the key "autonomousSingleAppModePermittedAppIDs"…
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Allow user to manually exit out of Guided Access when it was started programmatically

Thanks for trying to help me out. My app calls UIAccessibilityRequestGuidedAccessSession ( BOOL enable, void (^completionHandler)(BOOL didSucceed) ); to start Single App mode. So far that's working great. However, it seems that the only way to get…
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How to app switch when guided access is enabled

I am building an app for kiosk usage and we're very happily using guided access mode. However, there is indeed a suite of apps and until recently, we were using URL scheme switching to switch between different apps. However, we found out that guided…
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IOS guided access - can app know it is in guided access mode?

I am developing an IOS app for a class room environment - conducting a test. I have a requirement that the app should not come out during the test. Guided access is a perfect solution for me, since I can force users (students) to turn the device to…
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Check if kiosk mode is enable ( Guided access)

I have a reactnative application, i want to check if the user enable or not the kiosk mode (Guided Access) How we can check if user has enable Kiosk mode programmatically ? I found nothing on the internet, Any help will be apprecied
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Execute Apple Shortcut in Background

With URL schemes you can launch a shortcut (shortcuts app) from your app via a URL scheme. You can even add a callback to the URL so that the app gets opened again after the shortcut is executed (See…
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Swift detect power button press event

Is it possible to somehow get a callback when the user presses on the physical power button on iOS? Just to make sure, I am not actually trying to change the behaviour of the power button, I just need to know when it was pressed. Here is some extra…
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Programmatically Implement Guide Access in iOS

I know how to implement guided access mode manually from the settings app. I have a requirement to lock ios device to one app. So for example parent can lock his child to one app in iphone device so he can not use any other apps in his device. I…
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Swift UIAccessibilityIsGuidedAccessEnabled returns false even after guided mode is activated

I encountered a strange bug where UIAccessibilityIsGuidedAccessEnabled starts returning false even after guided access has been enabled in settings and I activated it by triple tapping the home button and successfully seeing the guided access is…
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Guided access prevents user notifications from showing - how to fix? (Swift 3)

My app shows user notifications to the user (that pop up on the top of the screen) at random points throughout the app (they get fired remotely from the server, ie when another user sends a message to them), using the UserNotifications framework.…
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SafariViewController in Guided Access Mode is not working

I am using SafariViewController to open a webpage. It works fine. But due to client requirement, this app need to be in Guided Access Mode. When i put app into Guided Access Mode, then Webpage is not displayed and i am getting below mentioned error…
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CLLocation Manager not updated when App is in Guided Access mode

I kept Guided Access for iPad app. When the app is launched it asks for user's current location using CLLocationManager.This is working under Normal mode and updates user current location. But under Guided Access, popup ("Allow to access your…
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CoreTelephony api is not working in Guided Access Mode

I want to show UIAlertView when Guided Access Mode is enable and there is an incoming call but i have found that CoreTelephony api is not getting called when Guided Access Mode is enable. How can i inform user with some information that they need…
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Detect iOS8 power/wake button - private apis

I've been trying to use private-apis to detect when the user pressed the power/wake button without success. My investigation has led me to GSEvent (http://iphonedevwiki.net/index.php/GSEvent) However this api is no longer available on iOS 8…
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