Hi everyone,
I need to deploy a set of videos onto an iPad for an upcoming event. Ideally, users should be able to just pick up the device and start watching the videos without much navigation.
Please drop your ideas on how to do this via an MDM.
Thanks!
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Hey! Just a heads-up for you, Apple doesn’t currently support pushing actual video files directly through an MDM. You can deploy apps, settings, and web clips, but not media files like videos.
Oh, any alternatives that you’d suggest?
Hi there, one simple workaround is to host the videos online, like on a private YouTube playlist, and then push them as web clips to the iPads using Hexnode. You can then customize the home screen of your iPad so that the web clips are easily accessible. Users can tap on those and go straight to the video page. Super simple for event use!
Something to add to @desmond‘s suggestion.
You can upload the videos to a cloud storage service like Google Drive, or Dropbox. Next, install the iOS app for that service on your device to view the videos. Combine that with a kiosk mode (single app kiosk would be ideal, I guess?) to lock down the iPad to just the video playback app.
Another option, create a basic webpage with all the videos embedded and then use something like a web app kiosk to lock the device to that page. That way users just tap the screen and browse through it.
These are all amazing suggestions. Thank you guys!
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