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This is very interesting! I need to manage my daughters phones as well as my ex-MiL who I still do tech support for. The Verizon Smart Family stuff barely works and I'm continually having to "fix" it. Can Jamf Now also do Android?

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You are a nice ex-SiL for your ex-MiL. I'd love to be able to manage my family's devices in the same way my corporate devices are managed. The built-in OS solutions aren't great (at least on iOS).

Anyelse confused by these acronyms? See https://community.babycenter.com/post/a63163060/meanings-for...

I just wish I could dive into my mother's iPad and see the screen.

Even a share screen button inside of FaceTime would be enough. But no... we've got to install some other app and open control center and face east and repeat the ancient incantation of "Holy one, give me the power bestowed upon only Apple Support employees..."

In iOS 15 and macOS Monterey, you can screen share inside of FaceTime.

Oh wow. This is something like 10 years late.

Thanks!

I finally got to try this... it's not very good. Voice quality takes a noticeable dive when screen sharing starts, the frame rate is very poor, and the image gets stuck a lot.

Better than nothing, but still pretty bad.

If on iOS 14 or earlier, jailbreaking allows VNC to work. Ofc a non tech person using a jailbroken device likely wouldn’t work so well since they are all only semi-tethered.

Fortunately, if on iOS 15.1 or later, FT allows screen sharing as sibling has also said.

> I just wish I could dive into my mother's iPad and see the screen.

Check out Splashtop SOS for remote viewing iOS and iPad OS devices:

https://www.splashtop.com/remote-access-view-iphone-ipad-ios...

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/splashtop-sos/id1230853703

Jamf Now is iOS-only, I’m afraid.

It is not, currently using it to manage a fleet of ~75 macOS devices.

Ah, true. But regarding the question I was responding to: it doesn't support Android. I've used it for macOS too :)

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