iPadOS Failed Command - Couldn't communicate with helper application.

[DarkRadions]

One of our enrollment technicians has come across an error where scoped apps won't install. The error message that is under the failed command is "Couldn't communicate with a helper application" Its an iPad and it's trying to install the Gmail app. See the attached screenshot. What could cause this? What can be done to prevent it?

[mainelysteve]

Just chiming in to say me too except it occurred with Sketchbook and I have my iPads on School instead of Pro. The Google machine presented an Apple Developer forum post here that mentioned the error as far as back as 14.x.

[bhouseward]

I came across this recently as well. I was not able to push any commands to the iPads. I manually updated iOS and that seemed to do the trick.