This article explains how to kiosk your device with certain apps to minimize misuse of device by the user.

 Setting up your device with a specific AMGuard policy (or in this case a Kiosk policy) involves 2 parts – Install AMGuard application and Provision/Activation of the device with the specific policy

Installation of AMGuard

Assuming that you have already signed up with AMGuard Enterprise Edition and you want to opt for Kiosk policy (Default Android Kiosk Policy appears as one of the default policies created for you), you can proceed installation of AMGuard on your devices either by using,

  • Zero Touch Install - Add video link here

Note that this video also demonstrates the mechanism of setting up the policy.

  •  Keyword Install – Devices are provisioned through afw#weguard keyword. Please refer below

Instead of using your gmail or google account, you need to type in “afw#weguard” and  need to follow the steps mentioned in the application(s) to setup your device with AMGuard. You may have to Approve/Click Ok and come across similar relevant buttons to proceed with the installation. If you see nothing happening on your device (it varies from OEM to OEM), please find and open the AMGuard app and follow the instructions provided on the screen.

Once you have AMGuard installed in your device (either through Zero touch Install or manual Keyword Install), you can provision your devices in one of the following ways.

Provision/Activation of the device

Device Activation by Updating IMEIs from Portal:

 You can automate device activation part by uploading device IMEIs to Kiosk policy. For that you will have to click on the policy name and in devices tab click on upload icon. As shown below


Note that, if you have setup AMGuard on the device with Manual Keyword Install, and only then have uploaded the device IMEIs on to the portal, you may need to restart the device for the policy to be activated on the device. If you have uploaded the IMEIs before Manual Keyword Install, then the device will directly load the policy and there is no need to scan the QR code.

Device Activation by scanning QR code:

 If you choose not to upload IMEIs, you can procced to activate the device manually by scanning the QR at the following page on the device as shown. At this page on the device, please click on the button adjacent to “Scan using” to open the QR code reader.

On the portal click on Enroll button of the Kiosk policy to open up the QR code and scan the code by the QR code reader on the device.

  • Now that you are all set up with your device in Kiosk mode with default policy, you will see AMCloud and AMTalk applications as well being installed.
  • For the next steps, you can refer the following articles to add other applications to policy

Upload Custom/3rd party applications

Push Play Store applications

 Your user will no longer have access to device settings, which means he cannot to do anything on the device except using your applications available to him on the Kiosked screen.


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