[Conner Participant 27 September 2022 Conner Participant]

Just to clarify, do you want to delete or hide these apps? If you just want to restrict access to certain apps, go for kiosk mode, it’s super easy, barely an inconvenience… or you could just blacklist apps you don’t want to use.

[Deema Participant 27 September 2022 Deema Participant]

That ain’t it chief, we want them off the device, we work with a lot of files, we can’t spare storage for bloatware and such….

[Conner Participant 27 September 2022 Conner Participant]

I came across this help doc for iOS system apps: https://www.hexnode.com/mobile-device-management/help/remove-ios-apps-from-devices-using-hexnode-mdm/#remove-system-apps

You can apply this policy, and users can delete system apps manually from the device by default. But unfortunately, you can’t delete them from the portal.

For Android, nothing much you can do than blacklist them or use kiosk mode… Unless you want to root your devices. I have seen some forums mentioning removing systems apps without rooting using ADB, but I guess that’s not really what you are looking for…

[Deema Participant 27 September 2022 Deema Participant]

We will cross that bridge when we get to it. Thanks for the assist. @Conner

We have also pushed apps for scanning documents, viewing PDFs, docs and spreadsheets. We have to keep reminding them to accept the prompt to install them from the App Catalog we push to the device. Is it possible to bypass this step. https://www.hexnode.com/mobile-device-management/help/mdm-app-catalog/

[Conner Participant 27 September 2022 Conner Participant]

Actually, you could just push apps to the device as Mandatory apps if they are supervised for iOS or enrolled as Android enterprise devices. Apps will be silently installed on user devices, with no prompts and permissions.

https://www.hexnode.com/mobile-device-management/help/how-to-enforce-app-installation-on-android-devices-using-hexnode-mdm/

https://www.hexnode.com/mobile-device-management/help/how-to-enforce-app-installation-on-ios-devices-using-hexnode-mdm/

 

[Bethzy Participant 27 September 2022 Bethzy Participant]

Can we apply certain app settings to an application? It would be convenient to pre-configure the app and deliver it to the device. To save the end user having to search for these settings when they install the application, it would be ideal to push the settings file to the device.

[Ethan Hexnode 27 September 2022 Ethan Moderator]

Hi there,

Thank you for choosing Hexnode Connect!

You can certainly preconfigure app permissions and configuration before deploying. Follow these guides to preconfigure apps on iOS and Android devices before deploying them

https://www.hexnode.com/mobile-device-management/help/set-up-permissions-and-configurations-for-an-app-using-hexnode-mdm/

https://www.hexnode.com/mobile-device-management/help/how-to-configure-application-configuration-for-ios-and-android-devices-with-hexnode-mdm/

You can also use XML,plists and mobileconfig files to configure the app settings and push it to iOS devices. Here is a guide to custom configurations.

Here is a guide to custom configurations for iOS: https://www.hexnode.com/mobile-device-management/help/how-to-deploy-custom-configuration-profiles-to-ios-devices/

 

Ping us if you are in need of assistance

 

Regards

Ethan Miller

Hexnode UEM