JAMF Teacher and iCloud Drive Issues

mkempster
New Contributor

Hello Everyone,

        We have started rolling out JAMF Teacher in our district and have run into an issue with iCloud Drive.  We are using JAMF Pro to manage if that helps.  The original issue was each time a teacher would use JAMF Teacher to restrict Apps, it would disable iCloud Drive and Notability, which we use heavily in our district, would lose all its synched notes.  We restrict the ability for the students to manage their Apple ID and see the iCloud settings through Configuration Policies, and when JAMF Teacher restrictions were removed, it would not turn iCloud Drive back on.  We discovered that adding iCloud Drive to the safe-list of JAMF Teacher Apps that could not be removed helped but we are still seeing this same issue on a handful of iPads each day.  The solution is to remove the Configuration Policy and go into iCloud and it automatically turns everything back on as soon as we go into the Settings.  

Is anyone else using JAMF Teacher seeing any behavior similar to what we are?  We rather not allow the students to modify the Apple ID settings and keep that restriction in place but the loss of iCloud Drive access for Notability and other Apps can't keep happening either.  Thanks in advance.

Mike

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DNIES
New Contributor

We are having a similar issue with JAMF Pro, JAMF Teacher, iCloud Drive and Notability.  The difference with us is that we do not restrict the ability to manage Apple IDs and iCloud settings.

All of our students have Notability configured to use iCloud Drive, and we have Notability and iCloud Drive on the Safelist.  Every day we get multiple students coming in because their notes are missing after being restricted by JAMF Teacher.  iCloud Drive is enabled when the JAMF Teacher restrictions are removed, but they still have to wait a very long time for their notes to reload.

Our preference would be for their notes to remain available when they are restricted.

Any suggestions?

Thank you