This guide details the Global Preferences options available in the Mobile Guardian Dashboard Settings. Global preferences let you set default security, privacy, device setup, and usage data rules for every managed device.
General System & Access Controls
- Application Access PIN: Configures a global PIN required to launch blocked applications via the Mobile Guardian client interface (Android only).
Can also be overridden on an individual device level in the Device Information section.
- Removal Password: Sets the default administrative password required to uninstall the Mobile Guardian application client (macOS only).
- Install Managed Application (iOS): Automatically deploys and installs the Mobile Guardian client application immediately upon device enrollment (Recommended: Enabled).
- Prioritise Managed Application Installation (iOS): Forces the Mobile Guardian client application to install before any other queued software payloads during device enrollment.
- Disable Places/Zones: Global toggle to hide the Zones workspace and geofencing management options from the primary dashboard menu.
Privacy & Location
- Do Not Store Location for Any Devices: Disables location telemetry globally across the dashboard, preventing administrators or supervisors from viewing device GPS coordinates.
- Location Geofencing Disabled: Globally deactivates location tracking capabilities across all enrolled devices.
- Hide Connected SSIDs: Obscures Wi-Fi network names (SSIDs) connected to managed endpoints, hiding them from administrative device information views.
- Show Web History Outside Business Hours: Allows administrators or supervisors to inspect web browsing history logs outside designated company operational hours.
Asset Management & Tagging
- Overwrite Device Tags on Sign-In: Configures devices to automatically inherit and overwrite local device tags with those assigned to the signing-in employee account.
- Auto-Naming of New Devices: Automatically renames newly added devices to match the name of the assigned primary employee account.
EMM Workspace & Remote Management Controls
- Browser Tab Limit: Specifies the maximum number of concurrent tabs allowed in enterprise browser sessions (EMM-Enrolled Devices Only; set to 0 for unlimited tabs).
- Window Setting (Deployment Window): Configures designated time windows during which application updates, pushes, and software deployments are executed.
- Device Update Frequency: Adjusts how frequently managed endpoints sync with the Mobile Guardian MDM server to pull fresh policy changes.
Security Filters & Operational Parameters
- Keyword Settings: Enables administrators to define and maintain a global corporate blocklist/watch-list of restricted keywords, with support for CSV bulk uploads.
- Vacation Mode Default Profile: Defines the fallback security policy applied fleet-wide whenever Vacation Mode is engaged.