Shared iPad for Business
One of the long-standing problems that many families and businesses encounter with Apple’s iPad is that it’s still essentially a single-user device. While Apple made some strides in adding multi-user support a couple of years ago, that was targeted primarily at schools, where it was understandably necessary for handling shared iPads in a classroom environment.
Now Apple has introduced this capability for businesses too in iPadOS 13.4. Although unfortunately it seems families will still have to wait, the fact that the feature is expanding does offer some hope that it may eventually become available for home users.
As 9to5Mac explains, the Shared iPad for Business feature will work in much the same way as it does in the classroom. Businesses will need to create “managed” Apple IDs for their employees (likely associated with their work email address) and then employees can sign in with that particular ID to set up their iPad and load their own data, which will be stored in and synced from iCloud and cached on the iPad so that an employee can log out when they’re done and another user can log in and pick up where they left off.