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... There is a free app that does this as well for jail broken devices, but I am not familiar with it: LockDown
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Avoid LockDown on iPad. It crashed my springboard, and no amount of resprings/reboots/hard resets cured it.

YMMV.
 
To the first poster, I don't want multiple accounts in Mail. I'm fine with the iPad being "my" device.

Sure you do, you just don't know it. With multiple accounts you could set up a guest account like on your laptop that would let you control what apps other users had access to or deny them permission from doing certain tasks liked deleting apps.
 
Just go to your settings and deactivate your email accounts when your kids want to use it and your problem is solved.
 
Just go to your settings and deactivate your email accounts when your kids want to use it and your problem is solved.

Can you explain what you mean by "deactivate". I only see two options similar to this and neither of them solves the problem:

1) In my Exchange account I can go into settings and turn the slider for mail to "off". However anyone can just as easily turn it back on without requiring a password, so there's no security whatsoever.
2) You can *delete* the account, which is a PITA to create again and requires your inbox to be re-downloaded (as well as your contacts and calendar if it's Exchange). This is not a reasonable solution for most people.
 
I would set up a new account in settings, designate it as a "default account" and let the kids play.

Anyone interested might investigate your settings a bit more but at least it is a deterrent.
 
This is an obvious deficiency in the iPad. Unlike my iPhone, I'd really like to have the ability to lend this thing out to others at work/home/etc without them requiring access to my email account.

I'm hoping that OS 4.0 will add the concept of user accounts to the iPad. The iphone is a 1 user device where multiple accounts aren't appropriate, but the iPad is skewed more to the computer role where more than one person may have a need to access it.

I'm in the situation now where my wife and I share the ipad. Ignoring the privacy concern, we could each set up our mail accounts in the Mail app, but what do you do about the default account for sending? And then how do you decide whose address book and calendar get installed? There is a definite need to allow multiple sets of personal data to co-exist on the ipad.

Failing that, I'd like to see the passcode lock feature enhanced to allow me to control where it should appear; either at device power on or at the launch of certain apps that the user can define. Then I can hand my ipad to a friend to watch a movie but be confident that he can't see my mail, calendar, or phonebook.
 
Can you explain what you mean by "deactivate". I only see two options similar to this and neither of them solves the problem:

1) In my Exchange account I can go into settings and turn the slider for mail to "off". However anyone can just as easily turn it back on without requiring a password, so there's no security whatsoever.

If you're giving someone free reign of your personal device, security is obviously not your number one concern.
 
If you're giving someone free reign of your personal device, security is obviously not your number one concern.

Uh, no, email security is *precisely* my concern when I give someone free reign over my iPad. In fact, that's what this whole thread is about.
 
Anyway, yeah, IMO the solution isn't multiple user accounts (that seems ridiculous on the iPad); they should expand the parental controls.

I have to disagree, I think multiple user accounts, implemented in a user friendly way, is the most elegant solution to the problem. Of course Apple would rather sell multiple iPads for obvious reasons so I don't know how likely this is to happen until competition heats up (if ever).

Although I agree with expanding the parental controls as well of course.
 
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