Blocking Private Browsing

[Isaiah Grathen]

Hello all,

Has anyone been able to remove access to Private Browsing Mode in Safari on their iPads?

If this is possible, I would love to hear how or if someone can provide a link to a walkthrough/support!

Thank you for any and all help!

[Josh Levitsky]

I looked through our profile editor, but also https://imazing.com/profile-editor iMazing has a free profile editor that is pretty amazing (pun intended) and I don't see anything in theirs either because if there was it could be imported. So I searched a little and found this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8649804 and realized maybe if I enable the Web Filter on iOS that it might block Private Browsing. 

The profile I made looks like the below image. It appears to work on my test iPad. It does require a device to be supervised so if you use DEP you should be good. 

 

[Isaiah Grathen]

23 hours ago, Josh Levitsky said:

I looked through our profile editor, but also https://imazing.com/profile-editor iMazing has a free profile editor that is pretty amazing (pun intended) and I don't see anything in theirs either because if there was it could be imported. So I searched a little and found this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8649804 and realized maybe if I enable the Web Filter on iOS that it might block Private Browsing. 

The profile I made looks like the below image. It appears to work on my test iPad. It does require a device to be supervised so if you use DEP you should be good. 

 

Thank you for finding this and testing this out, Josh!

I can confirm that creating a profile with just the basic "limited adult content" Web Filter turned on allowed us to remove the private browser on our iPads!