It is something that users have been asking for a long time: to be able to have several user accounts on the iPad. And with the first Beta of iOS 9.3 Apple has finally decided to add this function, although with nuances: only in the school environment. This new version will allow several students to share an iPad at school and each with their own session, so that your data is not mixed with those of other users. These and other improvements aimed at the field of education will arrive with the next update for iPad and we will tell you about them below.
In addition to the multiple user accounts for students, Apple has added a new application to this first Beta of iOS 9.3 so that teachers can guide students during the lesson, assess their progress and fully track their assignments. A portal has also been created for administrators from which multiple Apple accounts can be created very quickly, and a new type of Apple ID is also created for use in education. See what's on a student's iPad on the teacher's iPad, or even send the content from a student's iPad to a screen using AirPlay It is now a reality with these new functions that Apple has added to iOS 9.3. Undoubtedly many new and interesting functions that will help the iPad to regain lost ground within the educational field.
It could be a good test bed for some of these news to come out of education and reach all users. Being able to control what your child is watching on the iPad from your iPhone, or the aforementioned user accounts with different profiles and restrictions adapted to each profile could be news that would undoubtedly please many of the owners of the Apple tablet and that, why not, could arrive in iOS 10.