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title: "Allow or Block Applications on iOS"
slug: "allow-or-block-applications-on-ios"
description: "Discover how to allow or block specific applications on iOS devices for enhanced security and compliance using Scalefusion. This guide covers app management best practices."
updated: 2023-09-26T07:30:19Z
published: 2023-09-26T07:30:19Z
canonical: "help.scalefusion.com/allow-or-block-applications-on-ios"
---

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# Allow or Block Applications on iOS

For a corporate owned device, it is quite important to control the set of applications that the users have access on the iOS devices. The Device Profile feature of Scalefusion gives you a quick way to achieve this. Moreover, you can make as many Device Profiles as possible you want to create different types of configurations depending upon your organization structure.

Follow the steps below to understand how to **Allow** or **Block** applications.

1. Login to Scalefusion Dashboard.
2. Navigate to **Device Profiles & Policies > Device Profiles**.
3. Click on **CREATE** to create a new profile.
4. In the dialog choose **iOS** and give a name for your profile. Click **SUBMIT**.
5. You will be shown a page with **Select Apps** as the first tab as shown below.![](https://cdn.document360.io/175c0eac-012f-4410-bdc5-ac60794f82d8/Images/Documentation/allow-block-apps-on-i-os.png)
6. Choose if you want to Allow or Block applications.
  1. **Allow** - Strictly allows the selected applications to be visible on device. Allowed application works only on Supervised devices.
  2. **Block** - Strictly disallows the selected applications. All other applications will be visible to user. Blocking application works only on Supervised devices.
  3. **Publish Apps** - Use this if you don't want to apply any app-restrictions but just publish the selected applications. This is useful for managing Employee-owned devices.
7. The list of applications that you can choose from are,
  1. A prepopulated list of common applications on iOS devices starting iOS 9.3.
  2. All App-Store applications that are currently installed across your iOS devices that are already enrolled.
  3. The Applications that you have added to your Dashboard from **My Applications > Apple App Store**.
  4. The Applications that you have uploaded to your Dashboard from **My Applications > Scalefusion Apps**.
8. In this screen, if you have selected the option of Allowed Apps then Enable the applications that you want to allow.
  1. Note that if you want to publish Allowed Websites, then selecting Safari is mandatory.
9. In this screen, if you have selected the option of Blocked Apps then Disable the applications that you want to block.
10. Once you are sure about the selection, click **NEXT** to configure Allowed Websites.

In case you are **Allowing** the applications that you have added to your Enterprise Store or Apple App Store in **My Applications** section, will be automatically installed on the devices where you apply this profile. However, in case of **Blocking**, they will not be installed automatically even if you don't block them. They need to be published explicitly to the Device profile from My Applications section.