Oliver Ker Design

Using iCloud for presentation iPads

On a recent project we were tasked with creating a web app for a presentation where each recipient would receive their own iPad with a preloaded branded wallpaper and more importantly the web app saved as a home page icon to launch the web app.

Limitations of a web app (and why we did rather than app store) are for a much longer post maybe later but, after building the app we had about 16+ iPads to set up and get ready for the presentation package. Thinking we’d have to sit there and preload the apps add the wallpapers etc was going to be a task in it’s self.

Enter iCloud

We set up one iPad2 (iOS5) with one email address, set the backgrounds arranged the icons add the app etc. Then backup to the cloud!

Open brand new iPad number 2 – start up and restore from iCloud back up with the same email and password! Job done. Ok they still need turning on etc, but it really helped with cutting down amount of time and you could do it anywhere in the world.