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Keyboards with accommodation for pencils? At a point where I think I'd like to type, etc. but the default twelve billion dollar option by Apple don't even look to have something for the pencil. Air 5.
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Bit of an oddball question, but hoping if someone has a niche recommendation for me. I have a company iPad and spend 99% of my time at home with it. As part of the MDM I am unable to disable the auto-lock so everytime I leave it untouched for five minutes it powers off. I have observed that when a video is playing such as with Youtube the display never goes to sleep. Does there exist some app that does something in the background to keep the screen alive but doesn't perform a higher battery draining activity like music/video playing?
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TraderStav posted:Bit of an oddball question, but hoping if someone has a niche recommendation for me. I have a company iPad and spend 99% of my time at home with it. As part of the MDM I am unable to disable the auto-lock so everytime I leave it untouched for five minutes it powers off. Like, FULLY off? Not merely in the sleep mode? If you can't change the lock time limit under Settings > Display and Brightness, then just play a YouTube video and tell Siri to kill the brightness. Then, when you want to use it, tell Siri to raise the brightness to whatever percentage you want Music apps are some of the least draining you can use, assuming that closing the screen doesn't turn it off-off. Even less if you play something on local storage. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Nov 1, 2023 |
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Nov 1, 2023 17:45
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Mister Facetious posted:Like, FULLY off? Not merely in the sleep mode? No, not fully off. But enough to have to hit the power button and get FaceID to unlock. May just have to play music or something if that'll do the trick. Thanks!
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Nov 1, 2023 19:16
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What are you doing that requires the screen to be on while the iPad is idle? As someone who manages these devices for a living, making them lock when idle for a few minutes is a really, really good thing. This might sound a little mean, but you shouldn't be looking for ways to get around your work's security. It's their iPad, not yours. If you want one where you can disable all that poo poo, I'm sure there will be some deals for one in a few weeks.
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Nov 1, 2023 20:46
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It's annoying to have to unlock your iPad if you're using it for referencing something, and need to constantly unlock it between references.
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Nov 1, 2023 20:52
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Jose Oquendo posted:What are you doing that requires the screen to be on while the iPad is idle? The General posted:It's annoying to have to unlock your iPad if you're using it for referencing something, and need to constantly unlock it between references. Basically this. I'm using the iPad in my super secure basement for reference, monitoring various work chats, and such. It's an irritation, but one that I can get over.
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Nov 1, 2023 21:44
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Just put all the references in Paprika, problem solved 
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Nov 1, 2023 21:56
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TraderStav posted:Basically this. I'm using the iPad in my super secure basement for reference, monitoring various work chats, and such. It's an irritation, but one that I can get over. Guided Access does this, if your company hasn’t disabled it: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/ipad/ipada16d1374/17.0/ipados/17.0
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Nov 1, 2023 22:03
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Jose Oquendo posted:What are you doing that requires the screen to be on while the iPad is idle? Don’t listen to this corpo propagands . Do what you want with company property. If you can swindle yourself an iPad via whatever technological or bureaucratic loopholes are available to you then that owns and so do you
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Nov 4, 2023 16:34
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Jose Oquendo posted:What are you doing that requires the screen to be on while the iPad is idle? 
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Nov 4, 2023 17:33
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lol iPad NARCs itt
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Nov 4, 2023 17:37
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I mean I kinda get it if it's work stuff. Intune admins are a special breed. Okta just got breached by someone opening a personal gmail on a work laptop and LastPass got breached for the 5th time because some dumbass engineer was running a 3 year old vulnerable version of Plex. Still, snitches get stitches.
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Nov 4, 2023 17:55
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I don’t rat on anyone but I definitely don’t help end users when asked how to get around security. I just configure poo poo the way my superiors ask. I deal with a lot of patient data so Im always more cautious when it comes to stuff like that.
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Nov 4, 2023 19:47
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We gotta abolish private property and starting with making your work iPad personal property is as good a start as any.
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Nov 4, 2023 20:51
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I'd advise against using a work device for personal. Sounds like an excellent way to get fired.
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Nov 4, 2023 20:53
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Jose Oquendo posted:I don’t rat on anyone but I definitely don’t help end users when asked how to get around security. I just configure poo poo the way my superiors ask. I deal with a lot of patient data so Im always more cautious when it comes to stuff like that. I am curious if Guided Access works on the iPads you're describing, since it's a built-in accessibility tool.
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Nov 4, 2023 20:54
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The General posted:I'd advise against using a work device for personal. Sounds like an excellent way to get fired. Also gotta wonder how much you trust the IT department at your employer.
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Evis posted:Also gotta wonder how much you trust the IT department at your employer. A lot of reporting on devices is automated these days. They’ll narc on “non work categories” of activity. We had a few people in IT get caught using mouse jiggler apps from stuff like that. Basically just told them to knock it off and I think that’s all that became of it. But it’s no longer “Will they bother to look?” when tools just present reports these days. Also why I don’t get on our company wifi with my phone. They allow people to connect (like, policy allows it) but they block VPN connections so it’s not secure.
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Nov 5, 2023 01:54
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Jose Oquendo posted:
Lmao
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Nov 5, 2023 02:17
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Lot of assumptions going on that I'm using the iPad for personal use. It's work apps and such and obnoxious to have to turn it back on by not keeping it activated for five minutes. That's a real short amount of time. Using it as an extra monitor to spot check emails and chats but 12 times an hour to make sure I have to keep the screen active is a slight negative on my productivity. I decided to play a 12 hour white noise with black screen YouTube video with the sound down and have it in pip. Solves the problem.
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TraderStav posted:Lot of assumptions going on that I'm using the iPad for personal use. It's work apps and such and obnoxious to have to turn it back on by not keeping it activated for five minutes. That's a real short amount of time. Using it as an extra monitor to spot check emails and chats but 12 times an hour to make sure I have to keep the screen active is a slight negative on my productivity. i think the most efficient would be playing a video in safari but yeah your only "practical" option here is to play a video. however. auto-lock is based on attention awareness. so once _your_ eyes have stopped focusing on the ipad, it starts the timer. and then once it hits the timer, it auto locks. so the obvious solution is to create a 3d molded cast of your entire head. have it sit on the side the ipad is on and just aim it towards the ipad. your ipad will be unable to start the timer because your double will always be looking at it.
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Strong Sauce posted:i think the most efficient would be playing a video in safari but yeah your only "practical" option here is to play a video. Thank you for being the first in here to provide a serious, productive, and real answer. I’m going to get on this today!
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TraderStav posted:Lot of assumptions going on that I'm using the iPad for personal use. It's work apps and such and obnoxious to have to turn it back on by not keeping it activated for five minutes. That's a real short amount of time. Using it as an extra monitor to spot check emails and chats but 12 times an hour to make sure I have to keep the screen active is a slight negative on my productivity. You know, you could just ask the IT guy if he can set it toa longer time.
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Nov 5, 2023 17:08
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Mister Facetious posted:You know, you could just ask the IT guy if he can set it toa longer time. Fortune 500 company of over 10k employees. We have no discernible "IT Guy" available to us huddled masses. May but my bosses it support the next time I see him though. The execs get the luxury of not getting sent into a help desk hell hole when they have problems.
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TraderStav posted:Fortune 500 company of over 10k employees. We have no discernible "IT Guy" available to us huddled masses. seriously try guided access i feel like i'm screaming into a void here
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Arivia posted:seriously try guided access i feel like i'm screaming into a void here I'll give it a try. Unless I'm misunderstanding how it works I don't want to be locked into a single app. I'm using whatever the name of the feature is to have 3-4 windows arranged around and may swipe over to other apps too. But I'll see if it'll work You're not screaming into the void, I'm just stubborn.
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Follow-up: Cannot use guided access AND Stage Manager. So will not work for my use case. When I have a single app up I'll use it to resolve that issue. Thanks
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Nov 5, 2023 21:46
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TraderStav posted:Follow-up: Cannot use guided access AND Stage Manager. So will not work for my use case. When I have a single app up I'll use it to resolve that issue. Thanks Totally fair. Thanks for indulging me.
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TraderStav posted:Thank you for being the first in here to provide a serious, productive, and real answer. I’m going to get on this today! sorry  there just really isn't a way to circumvent the autolock since people _do_ want it to do it's thing. i did try to see if using a shortcut that loops a vibration to the phone interrupts the autolock timer but no luck.only other thing is to get something conductive and have it touch the ipad every so often. otherwise video is probably the only way.
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Strong Sauce posted:sorry I was just saying I appreciated your joke, didn't mean to come off like a dick if I did.
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Nov 6, 2023 05:06
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Strong Sauce posted:sorry Has anyone mentioned that you could just try guided access ?
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Duckman2008 posted:Has anyone mentioned that you could just try guided access ? TraderStav posted:Follow-up: Cannot use guided access AND Stage Manager. So will not work for my use case. When I have a single app up I'll use it to resolve that issue. Thanks
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Nov 6, 2023 14:06
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I was just giving a light joke for Arivia 🙂
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Nov 6, 2023 14:08
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This is a tough room
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Nov 6, 2023 14:09
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Duckman2008 posted:I was just giving a light joke for Arivia 🙂 
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Nov 6, 2023 14:11
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Hah, sorry I literally just woke up. I even second guessed myself but should have triple guessed
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Nov 6, 2023 14:12
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rafikki posted:Hah, sorry I literally just woke up. I even second guessed myself but should have triple guessed It's fine. Duck and I are forums friends I gave him the what for elsewhere for teasing me.
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Anyone use Orion? "Orion turns iPad into your portable external HDMI Monitor" It's free but you need a USB-C HDMI capture card.
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Rinkles posted:Anyone use Orion? I tried it because I happen to have a random usb-c to hdmi adapter but apparently it's not compatible because it refused to recognize any signal. Also the app is kind of cheesy, it has a dumb unskippable startup chime whenever you go into the documentation and it pretends to be an old CRT when disconnected. Which I guess isn't that bad, but it's kind of a weird vibe. Also, $5 to unlock 4k mode and CRT emulation.
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