Google Device Policy App Reviews

HELP ME!. The app overall is okay, it can help me get any work done I need to outside of school, but DO NOT make a profile. I went to do it and the little anecdote told me that my administration can track what I’m doing on my PERSONAL device, look through my photos, and DELETE APPS ENTIRELY! I am not okay with this, I would rather keep my stuff to myself. I have my home and school account on here, they could be able to access both, and that’s my private stuff. I don’t think they go through people’s personal accounts for a living, but honestly, I’m just not okay with it. If anyone has any way for me to protect my personal stuff while doing schoolwork on my school account, please let me know. Thanks!

Redundant. I don’t see the point of this app because it doesn’t work. I was notified to download this App to access Google drive and other google apps. Every time I try to use it it says “To regain access to your work account, contact your organizer’s admin.” Even though I’m using my personal email! I’ve tried using other emails and the same message will pop up or it would say that I have to sign into G suite, even though I already have. They need to fix this ASAP and the inconvenience is causing delay with attaining assignments for work.

Cancer for your phone. Avoid this at all costs if you can. It is way more complicated than it should be. I downloaded it to view my emails from work, but it has never worked properly. It just keeps taking me to a menu to download a bunch of other junk and I still can’t see my emails! Also, every time I use the browser on my phone, it reminds me that I haven’t completed the installation. (You also can’t delete it once it is installed, otherwise I would have removed it by now!) Edit: Now I’m just stuck in a loop trying to install my profile. It asks me to download, I hit accept and then it tells me to review my settings. Then it just kicks me back to the install profile section. What a joke!

Not Working. It used to work so fine and perfect until I encountered some difficulties and now when I try to use my google drive it doesn’t want to work even after I downloaded this app. It’s the absolute worst and they need to fix or remove this app. I already uninstalled it but I was planning on installing it again but then I say the reviews saying things like it’s stealing data and documents from your phone and don’t even get me started with this app now stealing and hiding apps. It’s a no for me.

If you really want to remove this.... If you really need to remove this app. You'll have to go under the Settings App --> General --> Device Management --> Tap on "Google Apps Device Policy" --> Tap "Remove Management". Personally, I love this app since I have a GSuite domain but organizations use it too as a means of securing their accounts.

Uhhh Was Fine but now it's not. Kept hearing other work folx saying they couldn't access their info anymore on iphone. I was fine until recently iPhone saying I need to update the app to the latest version so I can use Google suite on my phone. Well the Apple store says I have the latest version. So I'm in a loop where I can't log into work email because the loop. Now I've joined my coworkers that no longer has access via iOS.

Works Great!. You need to remove other device MDM profiles for it to work. I had set one up manually and it conflicted. If you are not an admin on the google business account, you may (will) have problems.... you will need to contact your admin... that’s easy if you are the admin. If you are not the admin and trying to install it, then it may or may not be configured. If you haven’t talked to your IT Dept., and you are not the IT Debt, don’t install it. This is for corporate google accounts, not your free gmail account. The purpose is for MDM... so you should probably accept all of the prompts that indicate it can remotely manage and wipe your device... that’s is the point.

Breaks every few months with no discernible cause. When it works, it does what it’s supposed to. However, every few months, something changes somewhere and this app locks me out of my work account on my phone (Gmail will prompt me to install the latest version but the app will be up to date). This doesn’t seem tied to anything I do or characteristics of my phone — I haven’t updated the OS or anything. The error messages are incredibly unhelpful and my workspace admin doesn’t see anything amiss on their end.

A necessity for Google apps powered enterprises. Allows your company‘s IT department to manage security profiles on our corporate or personal device to provide you with access to corporate resources. You would only download this app if instructed by your company or if you manage your enterprise security.

Need to explain additional steps if any. There MUST be additional steps that aren’t being explained. It’s telling me to go to my phone’s settings to download, when I try to install my profile. But it's already installed. There is obviously something not communicating on the back-end or there are missing steps for the user. Now this keeps telling me to download the latest version over and over and over again, and directs me to the App Store, but there are no updates.

This is the worst app in history. So I can’t do my work because of this message that keeps on showing up and says to regain access to your work contact your organization admin so please fix this because I contacted my administrator but they didn’t know how to fix this so I don’t know what’s happening or either my administrator is preventing me from using this app or this is just a bug so fix this bug or I’ll contact my administrator for details about why this is happening

Messed up the way my phone auto-locks. I wanted to be able to check my work email on my phone, and that required downloading this app. BIG mistake. I’m not sure how or why, but after downloading this app, my phone now auto-locks every time the screen goes to sleep. Even if I manually change the auto-lock timer to 5 minutes or “never,” it still locks IMMEDIATELY. I guess it’s a safety feature for accessing sensitive material, but my god is this annoying. I deleted the app but my phone is still screwed up, so thanks for nothing, I guess.

What Just Happened?. I’ve been accessing both my personal and company emails on the Gmail app with no issue for years, and then December 19,2019, BAM, I can’t get my business gmail account to load on my phone, stating device policy not authorized. So I downloaded this app, to no avail. I’ve spent way more time then I care to trying to resolve this, and am extremely frustrated! If anyone can explain how to fix this, please comment somewhere! Why does google have to complicate GSuite? And yes, I went to administrator page to make sure my iPhone is approved.

Terrible. I have been using this app for the past couple of months and it has been fine. But now, it. Keeps asking me to update it even though I have done it multiple times. Not to mention the quality is poor and the instructions on how to fix this problem are not in any way amazing. I use this app so I may access my school account and when I am in a meeting I do not need to be bothered by the notice popping up. In conclusion it will most definitely be needing some improvements!

Garbage system. I tried to access my google classroom from my phone and a notification pops up on my screen telling me i have to download the latest version of this app in order to log onto my google classroom. I do as suggested only to find out that the administrator has denied access to this app, so i am now unable to get onto google classroom on my phone, and this unable to submit the proper photos i need to turn in…

Do not use this app!. I usually don’t write reviews but I feel like I need to warn people about this app. I downloaded it for my work email. I installed it believing since it’s for work it should be safe. I was wrong. Literally a few seconds after installing this app it made me make a new password to get into my phone. Why? I don’t know but it wouldn’t let me not do this. After this I immediately deleted the app thinking that would be the end of it. When I went to change my password back it wouldn’t let me do a numerical password. I googled it and this app still had control over my phone so I have to reinstall it and manually unregister the app from my phone. Then my phone was back to normal... hopefully. I did not expect this app to have so much control over my phone just for my work email. I will just stick to going on my computer to look at my emails. Long story short don’t use this app unless you’re okay with an app completely taking over your phone.

Works for me. Some people were raising concerns about privacy, the help section of the app outlines it in detail, and the claim that all privacy is taken away seems unfounded: If you access multiple Google Accounts on your device, only data from your work or school account can be controlled by your organization. For example, if you have a personal Gmail account and a work email account, only information from the work account is available to your employer. Browser activity in private or Incognito mode in Chrome Browser or Apple®Safari® stays private.

do not get this!!!. this app literally controls your phone. it will make you change your password to unlock you phone and further. if you are trying to access your work email, STICK TO A COMPUTER. this is not worth the app’s control over what you do on your personal phone. it’s crazy. also if you went through the trouble of downloading this and are coming to this realization like i did, make sure you “UNREGISTER” your account on the app before you delete it so it no longer has power over what’s on your phone. google, i don’t know what this is, but it’s crazy.

It’s For Work and it Works. It’s designed for company managed google workspaces to lockdown your phone. People complaining that it removed apps are complaining about the policies their own company set. This app doesn’t do anything except download and set up google workspace on your device. It also makes sure google sign in is actually working right across all the workspace apps. It works like it’s supposed to, and it’s a necessity with iOS 18 since the gmail app can’t install device management profiles anymore (or at least at the time of this review).

Please Fix. I give this app one star because I was downloading it so that I could use my work email on my phone, but when I got it, it wouldn’t let me set anything up and my email still wasn’t working. I have since then deleted it, but every time I open Google Chrome, it pops up with “Install the latest version of ‘Google Device Policy’ so you can access your work data.” It’s really annoying and I even tried to restart my phone and it isn’t working.

Even after deleting, I get nonstop notifications from this app. I ended up not needing this app and deleted it off my phone within 24 hours. I continue to get nonstop notifications to update the app in order for it to work effectively with my phone. I have quadruple checked it’s deleted from my phone - via settings, notifications, App Store. I’ve even tried reinstalling and deleting it. Still. I need this to stop. I’m about to throw my phone.

Poor updates and Not Working.. I have to use this for my organization and it was working well until 3 days ago when I was kicked out and now I am unable to log in using secure account access. I keep getting the message to upload the “new version” of Policy Manager, BUT there is no new version. I have deleted it and reinstalled with no updates or improvements. I would say the overall app is worth 1 star.

Literally Spyware. It requires the download of a configuration profile, which overrides settings and allows administrators to modify the phone. These modifications can control you device password, what apps you can download, if you’re allowed to connect to iCloud, and even wipe the phone clean of all data. All of these settings hinge on what your company wants you to do. In short, only install this if you have a dedicated work phone that you don’t use for any personal function whatsoever.

Buggy and doesn’t work. It used to work when I added my Gsuite email to Gmail app. Then it just stopped working so I had to remove Gmail as it said I didn’t have access to it anymore. No biggie, using email through other apps. But I needed Keep on my phone and it asked me to install the app to access Google Keep. Then it says I can’t access it and to contact my Gsuite admin. I am the admin. Tried looking for other solutions, help files don’t have it. Last thing I tried is to just remove my account completely and re-add it, start over. Can’t because the app started bugging and just keep popping info popup without any option but to click OK and as soon as you do the same pop up shows up again. Over and over. USELESS and you can’t even use Gsuite on iOs without it. Guess I should stop paying for Gsuite now.

Made me uncomfortable. This is my personal phone as I am a highschool student. I do not have the ability to purchase a separate phone for completing my work. I used Google Classroom on my device to upload pictures of homework, notes, and drawings as it is easier to take photos using my phone than the school issued computer. I also used google drive to upload audio recordings for my music class. This app prevents me from using these applications. When I was in the process of downloading this app, it was telling me that the administrator would have access to my information on my phone. I don’t care whether it’s my personal account or my school account, the idea of my school having weight in my PERSONAL device made me very, very uncomfortable. This has made uploading recordings and files finicky as I had to remove my apps I have relied on for the majority of my school career. It renders these apps utterly useless. Please read the other reviews people have left on this app.

Works like it should. The people that have issues with the app have never had to manage or try to manage iOS devices in the wild. Apple makes it nearly impossible to implement security in an enterprise in any meaningful way, they still think in the consumer space.

Is Privacy in Google dictionary ？. To use google suite with business account, you need to install some profile from this app, which allows remote admin collect and modify data on your phone. Yeah you can say no. But then you cannot check your gmail, get google calendar notification and chat with your coworker using Google Chat. Destroy your business life if you rely on Google suite heavily. I truly understand the concern of the data leakage caused by losing phone. But forcing us to give out our privacy is definitely not a solution .

5 star for functionality but 1 star for usability. I will give this app 5 star for functionality but 1 star for usability. Once it’s properly configured, it works great, but configuring it took me some time and effort since the UI is very user-unfriendly. At the end of profile installation, there is a line of text on the screen saying something like copying the URL to Safari. I was switching to a new iPhone, I think the text might even be cut off or something on the screen. I was expecting simply clicking some buttons in the installation/configuration process and therefore totally missed the text for a manual operation. I ended up in some kind of weird incomplete installation loop for a couple of days until I finally read the text and did that manual operation. Reading some user feedback, I think that’s probably what’s tripped some other users as well. Please make that manual operation more apparent! Hope this can help some people.

*PLEASE READ BEFORE INSTALLATION* Why you should not download,and how to actually delete it.. This app literally takes over your phone,basically like you’ve been hacked. I downloaded this to acsess my school email and directly after,wasn’t able to screenshot. A past experience is where it asks you to change your password… ….I CANNOT stress this enough,DO NOT CHANGE IT! THIS IS LITERALLY A SCAM FOR THEM TO GET MORE CONTROL OVER YOUR PHONE! Now for the second part deleting it (getting your phone back) ,it’s not as simple as just deleting the app. I will go step by step for you guys: Step 1 - You will have to open the app Step 2 - Go to the menu [Three line icon in the top left] Step 3 - Go to the bottom of the menu and tap “Unregister” and then confirm to unregister your account from this device If you’ve done all of these steps correctly,then congratulations you’ll have you phone back. Please read the steps carefully. As just deleting the app is not going to work… Your Welcome!

Works well. As an IT professional we use this is in our environment for mobile device management and find it works well. If you don’t want your device invaded you could always, you know....not add your email account to your phone. If you want company information on your phone you inherit the risks associated with that.

Simple and Efficient. A very simple and efficient app to provision policies and company apps. We have used the policy manager for a number of companies and over 10 years only had one issue with certificate installation. Other than that, works great!

I mean... Ok first of all, this app is not TOO bad... it’s just really annoying when there’s these pop ups.. i only downloaded this on my iphone because unfortunately Gmail kept telling me to “Open “Google Device Policy” so you can access your work data” and it kept popping up so i got annoyed and downloaded this app.. and honestly this app is much rather disappointing because i expected wayyy better than this, it’s actually so empty when you open up the app..

i hate my life. ok so basically don’t get this app if your a student. this app holds not right to access so much information on my phone, most of which isn’t even needed for google docs. i have an URGENT project that needs to get done and i cannot because of this filthy app. 0/10 would not recommend. i’m most likely going to do bad on my test tomorrow :,( to be frank, did google docs need an update? NO, IT DID NOT! it was perfectly fine before. this is just super problematic for students like me. if you are looking for a stressful life then this is the perfect app for you.

Privacy Concern. This app is a monitoring app that has access to your entire phone’s content. Think of 1984, Big Brother, this is the beginning of it. If you want your employer having access to your contacts, your texts, your emails, your personal info, your browsing history, and your ability to even use your phone, by all means download this app. The point of this app I can see is for employees to make sure you do not leak information and it makes leaks easier to track since they have access to every employees info. They can also remotely wipe your phone if your phone is stolen or misplaced, so it is a huge plus for corporations in terms of security for their IP. However this will come at the expense of your privacy and autonomy. Don’t download this app at all costs.

dysfunctional app. There are not enough words to state exactly how useless this app is. It simply does not work. It glitches with the current iPhone update. Already I have wasted four hours of my life in the IT department trying to get this resolved and I have to go back again tomorrow. Whoever is in charge of this app, please take note that when you have a 1.7 star review average on an app you created, please take note that your work is terrible.

Work profile. On samsung phones when google device policy is administered, an separate work profile will be created where all the G Suite apps can be found and they are not mixed-up with personal google apps of the device. If your employer want to wipe their data or user enter wrong password several time to unlock the device only the work profile is goes wiped out keeping the personal data untouched. Please add the separate work profile feature for iOS platform as well.

It hid my camera!. I had this app for not even 24 hours and it was working fine until my camera was removed. I couldn’t find it anywhere on my phone. I search and looked up ways to bring back my camera but it turns out that THIS app hid my camera and I was no longer able to use it. At All! It took a bit of searching until I got a notification that website was trying to access information on my device. I was really disappointed because being able to work in my phone to finish up assignments was convenient. I uninstalled this app and other google apps because I don’t want to be blocked from using my phones other features and applications. I had high hopes for this app. I like that I could access everything I needed from one area but oh well.

Broken App. This locked up nearly half of the online apps I use as it was trying to relentlessly force this app’s download. Safari, Need to Download Google app policy—-Facebook, Need to Download Google app policy, Chrome, You Need to Download Google app policy, Office 365, You Need to Download Google app policy….this and my company account HAD to LEAVE my phone. Never again, Google/Alphabet. Fix your G-Suite accounts so educators, professors, students, and administrators can use your product efficiently.

Bad reviews are largely from dumb people. If your workplace or school uses this app to enforce policies you don’t like, that is not Google's fault, nor does it indicate a problem with this app. If you’re giving this a one-star review because you can’t use your camera or you had to use a better password than the 0000 you’ve been using, go complain to your administrator instead and stop embarrassing yourselves.

Constant Notifications. I’m the IT manager for my company and insisted that everyone install this app onto their mobile devices so that we could protect company data, particularly when an employee left our organization. In spite of having up-to-date device policies for all Google Apps, I receive constant notifications to update the policy when opening any app. Even after dismissing the notification, I receive it again and again within seconds. Also, this policy not available for Google Notes, which limits my ability to access Google Notes from my work account on my private device. It’s all very frustrating.

READ BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD. This app allows your employer to administrate your phone with a policy. It’s necessary to access corporate G SUITE features like emails and stuff on your phone. It allows the employer to e.g. wipe the data when the phone is declared lost. All the other comments claiming that this APP disables their camera and changes the password etc. and thus leaving a 1-star review, you are misinformed. Your employer is the one setting the policy, not this APP. If you are installing this on your personal device, understand the compromise you are making before continuing. I’m deducting a star still because Google should better communicate this information in the app before and after people download.

It won’t get off my phone now I have a pop up that shows. I have deleted the vpn from my iPhone acct manager. I have reinstalled the app and I don’t get an option to unregister and now every time I go into Google chrome I get a pop up that says I need install the latest update on Google device policy to gain access to work related information. I don’t have this on my phone nothing work related is attached. I want this off my phone!!!

Not made for small businesses. This thing has crippled us. I love Gsuite and all of google’s apps but this has made it impossible to work from my phone. It spams you with an Admin warning so you can’t access drive. it does the same for docs, sheets, and slides but if you manage to click between pop up notifications you can still use it (do not super secure if that was the intention). We don’t have an IT team so all of this is foreign to us and we don’t have the resources to fix it.

NO JUST NO READ THE POLICY. I would give it zero stars if I could because I was going to settings and reading the policy and then I come upon something that changed my whole opinion about google!!! I scroll and see it says “The administrator may collect personal data, add/remove accounts and restrictions” I WAS FLABBERGASTED AND THERE IS MORE!! “Install, manage and list apps and remotely erase data on your iPhone” LIKE NO I DO NOT WANT YOU OR MY SCHOOL TO DO ANYTHING TO MY PHONE!! I just needed this app for google slides because I have to do a project but I guess I’ll fail!😡

i hate this. the worst app i’ve ever seen. it doesn’t do anything to help you use your work accounts. i tried using this for my school account, but when it showed my status all it said was “to gain access to your work account, contact your organizations admin.” i was able to tap on it, but when i did the app did absolutely NOTHING. i can’t access my online schoolwork on my phone anymore, making me have to wait to do my work until i get home, which might be a little late in the day sometimes. so inconvenient. google, you need to either get rid of this app altogether, or make this so it actually works and helps people. i suggest the first option.

Can’t do any school work. I was just gonna get on my phone and finish some of my homework since I was on vacation but when I opened Google slides I was met with a notification telling me to download an app for the slides little did I know when I downloaded and put my school account on it I was giving it all my personal information and I still couldn’t use Google slides. I thought deleting the app would get rid of it but no I had to redownload and take my account out of it so now I’m sitting here on vacation and can’t do any work. Google needs to do a better job on this.

Absolutely Garbage. I have a test due tomorrow and I have been working on it for school a little bit so I downloaded because it said I had to download this app to use google docs before I even got the app it made me a bit unsettled that it said the app had access to my phone but of course I expected so I could work on my essay which is a test grade by the way and it said that my school administrators had to accept my account to even use the app so now I can’t work and it’s all this apps fault I used to be able to do tons of productive work on my mobile phone and as a broke student I wasn’t going to buy a laptop when I could do all my work on my phone now I am thinking I should get one. Do not download this app. Also side note really creepy how I can’t revoke the permission I gave my administration to have access to my phone, also now gonna fail this test because of this stupid update please remove.

DO NOT DOWNLOAD!!!. Upon going through the extremely lengthy process to be able to use my Google Drive on my phone and make it easier to upload and work on projects, I now realized that I simply cannot work on my phone anymore. What used to be a reliable app system that Google created, is now a scam. When I went into my settings to install the profiles as asked, I was presented with “Warning: The administrator may collect personal data, add/remove accounts and restrictions, install, manage, and list apps, and remotely erase data on your iPhone.” .... WHAT?! My phone and what I do on it is not property WHATSOEVER of my school or the organizations I am volunteering or working for. Will NEVER use any Google apps anymore, and immediately uninstalling ALL of them, since they’re useless now. I’m highly disappointed that such an invasion of privacy within my own device is coming from Google. I was even thinking of getting a Pixel, but this just left a bad taste in my mouth. If I could give it 0 stars I would.

Junk. I can’t access my work data. There is no update. It says I have to update the app. I have asked our head tech guy and he had no idea what the message means (telling me to get my organizational admin to give me access) I rely on my phone/tablets to have access on the go. I can’t get into any of my google stuff with my work address. Everything was fine until 24 hours ago. Total junk. Avoid this app if possible. Update: same thing happening again. There is no update, but I can’t access my work email and apps without this mysterious update.

Pop up on every time when I open chrome. This is a pathetic app, it keeps showing me pop up to get the latest version to get work data every single time I open the chrome app. A trillion dollar company that has most annoying user experience, initial thought it may be issue because of some bug and thought it will be quickly resolve in next version, but I was wrong it is now almost 2 years and still I have the same issue ..

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Biggest waste of time. App doesn’t even do anything nor does it even work so slow and doesn’t load

App. I don’t know what this app is supposed to do. All I know is that it’s locked me out of my access to my email because it seems to be only half installed . I rely on being able to access my email on my phone for my job. If I can’t sort this out by Monday it’s going to greatly inconvenience me

Stop working with IOS 16? Cannot download it again after deleting it. Stop working with IOS 16? Cannot download it again after deleting it ? Workspace not working on iPhone 12

Google Device Management at its worse. My work data and all Gsuite access got revoked and prompted me to reinstall Google Device Mgmt. I had to reinstall to install it back. But reinstallation itself took very long and the download option in AppStore itself got frozen and wouldn’t work at all, even after my 1 hour and many tries.

Nope. No way I will allow the permission they asked in their policy update. I guess no more work on my personal device then. 0/10

Worst app bar none. This is just simply the biggest pile of garbage software available anywhere. Any company using this to meet their staff mobile access needs there heads read. Profiles that don’t install, continual interruptions whenever you try to use chrome and generally blocked access. Just simply diabolical. The developers should be taken out back and shot.

Keeps saying update app when it's updated. Can't even use it. Gets stuck in a loop while uploading profile suggesting update its own app

Doesn’t work. And now can’t get my business gmail on my iPhone 12.... hopeless.

Constant interruptions to update even though on current version. If I could give this minus a star I would. Do not use. Do not use Gsuite. I am so close to uninstalling all of my google software including gsuite. AND I’M A REGISTERED RESELLER. Constant interruptions, took over a year before I could even update the software on my iPad after initial installation. Cumbersome, unnecessary, and refuses to sync. If I switch to Chrome from another app “please update your device ...” constant. I have to keep resyncing manually. How is it possible that not only is this app completely broken and cr@p, but that there is no developer feedback or answers from one of the world’s foremost experts in tech? I would have been disappointed if this was an app from a part-time software student. From Google, this is just shameful.

Doesn’t recognize update. Demands latest version but still fails after update. Not happy.

Do not download without checking. Make sure it’s compatible with your work profile first

Google device police not updated. I am receiving messages that I need to update to the latest version but when I try it says not sinked and keeps on loading. Not able to use official mail after that

Completely and utterly useless, if I could never use google again because of this I would. This is so indescribably awful. I wish I could never use google again

Bugs your phone dont download please. I have been suffering from a pop up since i deleted the app. Can’t remove the pop anymore the pop up sign - asks me to download this app. No matter what app i open always pops off sick of this app

Very useful. Good

Waste of time. I’ve not been able to access my work email on my phone since this. Despite following all instructions and the email showing up as here but not loading. What a waste of time 🙈 and now a week later still no email …

Incompetent app.. This was forced on me by work and now my Iphone and iPad calendar and emails don’t synch with each other, nor with my work calendar and email, in spite background refresh always set on. Three versions of each. Absolute rubbish. Help is moronic, and doesn’t provide workable solutions. If I remove it from my PERSONAL phone or ipad I will be fired. Forces all comms into my personal email address thru my work one, from which I cannot reply to them. Deserves a NEGATIVE RATING. DO NOT USE THIS !!

Garbage. Garbage

Do not bother. I read the previous review and still downloaded it. Opened the app and tried to log in and it still didn’t sync. I just started laughing and wrote this review.

Awful app. When my work went to single sign on, I lost any access to work stuff I had on my iPad. I was told to download this to support it. It’s rubbish. Despite uninstalling it, it constantly pops up when I access chrome, wanting me to reinstall it. I now have a bug I can’t get rid of.

It’s not working.. I follow all the steps in order to add my account and it’s saying I need to dowload the last version but there is no other.

Horrible. Glitchy and buggy.. This is a truly horrible app.

Hate it. So many authentication issues. Easier to just not use my phone for work anymore than get this thing going.

Asks to install, already installed. Asks to install, already installed

This is dumb. Being forced to use this as I can’t do any work on my phone and tablet without it..

Not working since last update. Coming up with error on multiple devices. Install the latest version of GoogleDevice Policy ….com even after app updated in App Store.

Pile of steaming stool. Literally the worst app for the most stupid security system I have ever seen. Can’t access my accounts, can’t make any changes to allow access then the app crashes every single time I try and login or do anything other than nothing. Nice one google, really outdone yourselves this time.

Don’t do it. Complicated. Hard to navigate. Load of bs.

The worst app in existence. As titled. This is completely useless and whoever designed should quit their job. You’re making everyone else’s extremely hard.

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The last version dont work. Since the last update all of my Google apps dont work. Device policy wont Sync and tell me the application need to be updated. The problem is all of my apps are up to date and my ios to. Its a big problem because eu can't use my email / calandar and drive since more than a week now.

Appli merdique. Toute ma plateforme Google telle qu’utilisée par mon employeur est maintenant inopérante sur mon IPhone. L’application ne synchronise plus et toutes les tentatives de reformater min cellulaire sont restées vaines … échec total, application qui ne vous apportera que des maux de tête.

I got rid of gmail. This is the worst system ever. I wasted too much time trying to install that defective app. I got rid of gmail altogether.

Stuck in an endless loop telling me to update. I have the latest but it keep asking me to update. Stuck. Can’t access my work account now.

Notifications. I am getting notification to download latest version of Google Device Policy again and again even after uninstalling it. That’s annoying!

Locked out without recourse. Won’t prompt for profile install and no option to install it. Locked out. Message just says “contact admin”.

Useless. Stuck in a pop up loop. Even when uninstalled I keep getting asked to install it. Incredibly annoying and frustrating.

I HATE THIS APP. I get a pop up after every 2 minutes WHYYY!!!!

Pathetic. Was in middle of work this update came and removed everything associated with Google. Annoying

It’s annoying. I receive non stop pop-up ask me to install latest version. Please apply google UX rules to your own app.

Terrible. Multi trillion dollar company, but can’t even get a basic app to work. Throw this in the trash where it belongs and start from scratch.

Works great. Just wish apple would limit screenshot control to managed apps

Not good. I need to use my phone for school, but I can never sign in to my account because it tells me it download this app. So I downloaded the app and it doesn’t work.

Literally the most frustrating App ever. One star only because zero stars is not an option. This app is flat out useless at doing what it’s supposed to do. The frustrating merry-go-round process goes like this: 1) Download and install the App on your device. 2) From the app, log into your Gsuite corporate account, accept your companies device policies and install the managed profile onto your device. 3) open any google app and/chrome browser installed on your device to be immediately greeted with the follow notification “Install the latest version of Google device policy so you can access your work data”. From there you have two options, hit cancel or go to App Store. 4A) if you hit cancel you’ll be able to proceed with using the app, but as soon as you leave the app and reopen it again, boom, the same notification pops up. Every. Single. Time. 4B) if you hit go to App Store, you’ll be taken to the Google device policy app listing, where you’ll be surprised to find out that the lasted version is already installed! So now you’re thinking everything is in order and your good to go. Could not be more wrong. As soon as you open any of the managed Google apps again, boom, notification pops up. In essence, this is an app that is required if your work data is from GSuite, but all it does is produce annoying notifications to install the latest version of the app, which you’ve already installed, but the notifications won’t stop. It literally is an endless circle of pointlessness. Great job developers!

does not work. what the developers were smoking while creating this app. this just doesn’t work at all.

App does not work on iPhone XR. This app does not work on iPhone XR

Let Your Company Control Your Phone. I just wanted to backup some of my photos or video on Google Drive. It forced me to download this app. However, in order to allow it works you also needs a company / school email account which I did, but by allowing this I allowed my company’s admin to access my personal phone, stuff, location and even blocking it. Worst app ever! Meant to be safe but actually losing your control of your own phone and your own privacy! I deleted it right away and hope they stopped monitoring me.

Doesn’t work. The apps doesn’t work

App is cr4p. I can’t even get past the “install profile” part. It’s so silly how I can’t access my work email through my gmail app , only an useless app. Fix your $h*t google.

Does not work. I can no longer connect to my work email as it keeps telling to install the latest device policy but I am already running the latest. JUNK!

Junk and annoying. Doesn’t work properly and keeps telling me I need to update every time I open chrome. Regardless of the latest update being installed or not. Even does it after I’ve deleted the app.

Doesn’t work. It keeps telling me to install the latest version. I doesn’t work

What is happening. Is this a joke? Could not get into my work email suddenly today & MUST download this app to get into it. I do it and cannot get past load profile screen? So forever locked out of my work?? Come here and see it has been YEARS of this same complaint and google has not corrected it!! So upset.

Fml. i accidentally downloaded this and deleted it right away and now every google related app has pop up ads telling me to download it. im at my wits end

Wow!. For a multi B company, this is incredibly incompetent. What kind of app is this? I regret downloading it trying to sync my work account to my phone. Now I’m living in hell like the rest of the poor souls who downloaded.

Bad. Keep telling me to install, doing circles

Does not work. Simply put this app does not work. You just end up in an infinite loop of it asking you to install the policy

Constantly getting pop up to install the app. I have removed the app from my phone but it constantly pop up to install the app.

Google need to fix this.. Googles device policy won’t let me or anyone else update there policy to 15.4!!!! This is extremely frustrating because I need this for school!!!

Absolutely never get this app. Horrible app, randomly got locked out of all my apps and was redirected to download this only to be told on the app that I’m not able to access my account, never download this disgrace

Anon. constant popups . Collects a lot of personal data

Constant popup ruins chrome experience. Even removing the device profile and uninstalling the app doesn’t stop the popup in Chrome and of course in the app the ‘Help’ page leads nowhere. You will severely regret downloading this app - avoid at all costs.

Why is it like this. I downloaded it because it wouldn’t let me text my friends on chat, it wouldn’t let me open gmail and more! Once I downloaded it, that happened again! Do not download the app!

Why do I constantly get a pop-up. I keep getting a constant pop-up asking to install latest device policy but I already have it installed and up to date????

Its just Horrible… a zero stars rating if i could. Loops endlessly and its just garbage. Do NOT download this on your device. You’ll be so sorry you did. Hours and hours of your life will disappear in this annoying Matrix that you won't get back Dont do it!!!! Pure Junk.

Not working. Google please get rid of this app. Not only it doesn’t work but it signed me out of all my gmail accounts unless I download this app which I already have.

Why do I constantly get a pop-up?. It keeps telling me to install the latest Device Policy but I am already running the latest version!!!!!

Terrible. Me bloqueó el celular, tuve que restaurarlo. Se me borró mucha información. La peor app que haya visto.

horrible app can’t believe it’s google. constantly asks to install latest version but i already have it. interrupts chrome browser use every few minutes EVEN AFTER UNINSTALLING. gives employer remote control permissions to wipe data from personal mobile device WITHOUT SPECIFYING WHAT DATA IN WHAT CAPACITY UNDER WHICH CONDITIONS. feels no different than a scam. some parts may be employer poor communication but functionally this app is still horrible. i’ll go without gsuite on my phone.

Bug. It keeps telling to install the latest version Stuck

error pop up box. I have seen same issue reported 3 years ago. a pop up box which is asking me to install new version of the tool but I am using the most recent version.

Useless. All of a sudden my email stopped working and was told to install latest version. I did that, even deleted it and reinstalled, and it continually says to install the latest version. When I open the app there is zero explanation of what to do. Completely useless app and why is it needed? Come on Google you do better.

Unneccenary - force us to use this and not able to access directly at all. Be open regardless.. Come on! Open and direct connect documents

Newly relocated resident of Hell. Upon installation the Google Chat, the app puts an unbreakable curse on your phone which is not removed even after uninstalling both apps. The only way to lift the curse is to go through all 9 Circles of Hell and return to your mortal realm. I am in Gluttony right now and God damn it, I am not stopping. 4 stars out of 5

Ne marche pas. Me renvoi à la case départ …. Ne fonctionne tout simplement pas…

May God preserve you from this app. I think this app came from hell and was send by the Devil to destroy us

Worst app. This is the most rubbish app produced by a tech giant. There’s no easy help to install and update device policy. I failed trying after 3 hours.

Avoid at all costs. Highly invasive and hard to get rid of. If you need this for work, consider accessing your email from your computer instead, which doesn’t require all this silliness.

Bug after bug. App i so full of bugs,

Atrocious app destroys Gmail. Impossible to sign in from iphone and use this app rendering gmail utterly inaccessible. Terrible design what idiots

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No access to google. I am no longer able to upload to/open my google drive or google classroom. I use classkick in my instruction with students and now when I use the “login with google” option everything says that with google I am now an unauthorized user, access denied….very frustrating!

Great for MDM and Enterprise Device Security. Device policy is very customizable and granular on the security policies. Setting this up was fairly easy and it works like it’s supposed to. I’ve used other MDM products and Google’s has been the easiest to setup.

Poor google…. If only they had enough resources to invest in making their products work. Alas, since a user may want to use both google workspace and an apple product, we must suffer. Is it too much to ask that as a paying customer for google workspace who wants some corporate security control that we can have it work on an apple device?

Annoying. Google apps like docs and excel are annoying me and many other people with telling us to download this, ive downloaded it and i cant seem to get the notifications to stop

My pictures got removed!. I downloaded this app to finish a project. I was insecure when I first was asked to download a profile. As soon as I downloaded it, I was asked to change my password. I then get logged out of my phone, and when I log back in, my phone is hacked and all of my pictures are gone. What Google created for convenience is now a scam. If I could give zero stars I would.

This app does not have proper instructions. The Chrome pop-up notification asks me to download this app all the time. But after I downloaded it, it denied my access. I installed and uninstalled multiple times, and it still did not work. I have to use a different web browser because of this stupid app.

It’s taken over my phone. Downloaded it because my job requires it now I can’t remove it. It won’t let me use chrome with saying have have to download it again. Once it’s on your phone it’s not coming off. I don’t even need it anymore and it’s still telling me I need to download it. Even after clearing my cache and cookies and browser history. Still asks please remove this hopeless app

What were y’all thinking?. This is an absolutely terrible idea. You guys just made everything way more complicated than it needed to be. I had an assignment that I had to take a picture of on my phone and send to my chromebook, but now I can’t because it says I’m not connected to my organizations admin. Just leave things how they were when we could just load up the individual google apps.

It’s haunting me like a ghost. Sooooo I thought I would need this app because my work office has Google Suite but I don’t at all. Unregistered and uninstalled this app months ago and now all of a sudden, every time I open my chrome app I am prompted to install the latest version of “Google Device Policy” and I hate how I don’t know how to make this prompt STOP. I might just stop using chrome app altogether because it’s really annoying.

I hate this. I was told to get this app to access something for work. But once the app Is downloaded, it says it needs to update and then never does. You can’t delete the app either cause it doesn’t t matter if it’s there or not! Your phone is full of messages saying it needs to be updated and downloaded! I want it to go away and it’s like the herpes of apps.

Uhhh Was Fine but now it's not. Kept hearing other work folx saying they couldn't access their info anymore on iphone. I was fine until recently iPhone saying I need to update the app to the latest version so I can use Google suite on my phone. Well the Apple store says I have the latest version. So I'm in a loop where I can't log into work email because the loop. Now I've joined my coworkers that no longer has access via iOS.

Easy device management. This works great for our organization keeping track of all devices and apps. Ignore low star reviews. They probably don’t understand the app function.

180 degrees from being helpful MOST FRUSTRATING!!!. For weeks have been trying to get a connection with my work gmail account and end up in an endless loop of toggle, and have to download and messages about using it and toggle and have to downlaod and message and toggle and download …………….. Google Seriously, do you get this is not useless, it’s an obstacle.

Allows remote access to your phone. When you install this it tells you that it allows remote access to your phone and that the administrator can delete or transfer your data. Makes it impossible to use your personal device for any form of work

Unit. So many people think that this app is they complain that the app is made for your work to take over the phone that you install it on that is what it is for

Privacy. I mean, device manager can work alright, but when it asks you to install profile, it says your administrator can remove stuff, and check your history. This is my iPad, and I do not want anyone else to see my private information, I don’t see why I can’t be allowed to just skip this step.

Gmail not working for secure email for business. I can’t change the background app part on my iPhone!! You need to fix this. I cannot access my business email account and still keep it secure under gmail! Ever since the update and it’s really beginning to effect my business as I cannot use email on my phone...

DO NOT INSTALL. Ever since I started trying to get familiar with G-Suite and my business account emails. I installed this app because it was recommended along with the other Google Business Apps. However, since installing this app, I can no longer login to my gsuite business account emails. Getting a notification that the “Device Privacy Policy” is outdated. So far I have not found any help online to fix this!

A must have for your G Suite powered company. With this app, you can push your device policy and present a menu of approved apps. Very handy. For future improvement: It would be awesome if users had the option to install all post device approval.

Terrible. I hav personal gmail accounts and tried adding my business account, which I am the administrator for, and it’s one bid circle of bs. I can’t access my business account G-Suite even after downloading this app, keeps tell me to download the app after I already have, then says to contact the administrator of the account to get access... I AM THE ADMINISTRATOR, and I can’t get this stupid thing to work, I have spent 5 days trying, maybe the Apple Genius Bar can help??!!?!

Negative stars. I downloaded and deleted and keep getting interrupted with messages to complete my download. It needs to go away!!!!!!!! still no resolution… This is ridiculous. I want to throw my phone at the wall because stupid Google device manager won’t stop coming up every five seconds when I have deleted it. Total junk.

Buggy. Super buggy and weird. I HAD to get it to have access to work emails on my phone. I have to delete and redownload every 6-9 weeks to continue being able to access my emails…says to toggle on background app refresh but it’s greyed out in settings—set to ON and can’t turn it off (so how do I turn it on more…?) I just delete it again and get it again. P.I.T.A.

SO UNHELPFUL. As a student, being able to use my phone to turn or work on something in is very valuable. This app completely takes that away. My apps were working perfectly before this came out. It is unfair and is an excuse of a “benefit”. Please remove this app and have the daily apps I use like Google Classroom be able to be accessed as easy as they once were!!

Do not install. The privacy settings on this app is so invasive. Once I installed it and installed a profile, I am now greeted with an annoying popup stating “Install the latest version of Google Device Policy so that you can access your work data” every time I open Chrome. Even after uninstalling this app and google chrome, it persists. Please heed my warning

I just wanted to access schoolwork. I am a middle schooler trying to access google and I get this my google apps, when I download the app turns out I can’t access MY account on MY phone without acceptance from administration. That’s not even the dumbest part, I can just go into google and type in google docs and access my account from my phone so yes, this is a very unnecessary app needs to be removed.

What the heck is this?. I got this notification saying I needed to get the latest device policy, so I go to the App Store, download it because I can’t check my email on my phone any longer (even though it only had 2 stars), and now it keeps taking me through this download cycle where nothing is actually downloaded but then it tells me I need to update my device policy! This is beyond frustrating.

Bull crap. If you download this then you have to be comfortable with your school administrators have Linh access to all the information on your phone! This mean your texts, your photos and more. I am in no way comfortable with this and find it outrageous that o am have to forfeit my personal privacy to my phone to have access to this classroom. Thankfully it is still available via browsers on computers, just the app is unavailable.

Listen to these reviews! Do not download!. Downloaded once, was in rush at work and needed to use my personal phone to check data from work. This app is a type of virus it seems. It is impossible to remove. It is something outside of iOS software... The pop ups are non stop and you can't get rid of them. How is this even on the app store? Somthing is sketchy here, I hope it gets removed. I can't find any way to get it off my phone. Someone help :(

Very easy and straight forward. I read some of the reviews that were bad. I have not had an issue with this app. Based on the bad comments it appears to be user and admin errors. This app is meant for Gsuite Enterprise and Business platforms. Just my two cents on the matter. Good luck.

I just want to use Google Chrome. This app is garbage. No, I don’t think you should be able to have the ability to remotely delete or change anything on my phone, but I do really want to use Google Chrome. That’s it. Instead I just get an annoying thing every time I open it that I haven’t installed this security thing. Google. Why are you like this?!

0 Stars. Do not recommend. As online school is a norm right now, I needed to upload an audio to a document. When my iPhone would not send the audio via email, I decided to use Google Drive. I had to download this app, but it can remove/add anything on my phone? Control what I DO on MY phone? Sounds kind of sketchy, and now my project is 1 hour late. Thanks a lot, google.

This is a no go!. This app does not have to keep sending that ridiculous error message every time you try to do something on YOUR phone! It is Uber annoying. The app also does not need to collect any information or see and have access to anything else I do or that is on MY phone outside of my company’s use for it. This is insane and an invasion of privacy per usual. This app can go to h-e-double hockey sticks!

Can’t access business account. This isn’t working properly and I don’t know what to do to fix the issues. I can’t access our business email accounts because it keeps requesting an updated policy which was done. The message prompts me to notify the admin but we are the owners of the business ( the admins). We need to access our business emails, documents, etc. Please fix this issue and assist us with getting into our account

Erased all my data. I had to install this to use my work emails and chat on my phone. This app installed a profile which deleted all my data. It locked my entire phone and I had to call apple support to unlock. It took more than 2hours to get inside my phone. However, I lost my data. Not recommended for iOS users.

Worse than unreliable. The app keeps saying “your account is still being REGISTERED” and keeps bringing up these error tabs. I can login to my school account or Google Classroom (which, last time I checked, is very important to a STUDENT) I wished this app never existed in the first place. My accounts were able to function just fine without it, if anything, this stupid piece of crap just hindered it

Horrible. This app is horrible. I originally wanted to go on google docs and slides so I can work on my school project, it wouldn’t let me telling me i have to download this app. I cant even use this app because the administrators have to approve. This app doesn’t even work. Now i cant work on my homework at home, thanks a lot google. Google, delete this app. I just want to report this app. Now I can’t do my homework.

⚠️DO NOT DOWNLOAD⚠️. I don’t know how I feel my administrators having access to my device.. and it doesn’t let me open Google docs or slides and is forcing me to download this app! It was really convenient to be able to work on my assignments when I’m not at home but now I won’t be able to do that. Do not like this app please don’t download

Works great. Read the other most recent review and they’re correct, worked great for me. Maybe those updates 4 mos. ago? Whatever the case it works now!

Data hog. Went nuts and used 12+GB on my iPhone and iPad each. Now my Google Fi account is stuck on low speed and they are extorting me to the tune of $10/GB to allow my phone to be usable again. The fact that it was Google itself that caused all this data wastage and then they’re trying to extort more money out of me for their issue just really seals the deal.

Worked well until it didn’t 😳. Stopped working. Worked well for more than a year then it glitched asked for my password every 1.5 seconds literally. I had to clear the need google password multiple times while entering my Google credentials. Issue continues after dual factor authentication was successful. Reset my phone, same issue. Delete and reinstall profile, same issue. Reset my account, same issue. Changed my password, same issue. Turned off notifications, same issue. Did all the above multiple times, same issue.

Can’t Remove. I was asked to install this app for work and when I realized that it was for protecting work related products installed on my mobile I choose not to complete the install as I don’t have anything work related attached and now I cannot get the pop up screen to install to stop loading. The address that it tells you to go to for removing/deleting the app is nonexistent.

Why is this not working now?. I access my work email through my phone so I’ve had this policy and when I went to check my mail it says check the device policy but when I come I her it just says “open” there is no option to update it and I am no longer able to access my work mail from home. What is going on?

Cannot fully delete this app from my phone. I thought I needed to instal this app for work. So I installed it and then changed my mind after reading the fine print. I deleted the app…. But I get these pop up messages to finish setting it up, but I already deleted the app. Please devise. The message pops up every 10 seconds on google chrome.

To many pop up. Any time I open a google document or app the pop up comes up to update google device policy. It’s absurd and annoying. There has to be a better way, may like an automatic update or something more user friendly. Anyways I don’t need it anymore since my kids are back in school so I’m going to try and delete it but it’s not as easy as it would seem.

Worse App Ever. This app is so frustrating. I have logged into my work account almost every day since downloading this app. Every time it tells me to sync it, it takes me to this app and the is does not sync. I don’t know how to make it sync and it never does. There is not even a button to make it sync.

Not on my device. I used to be able to do productive things for work on my mobile. Now I’m going to have to dump the gmail app and use some other email client instead. I’ll lose the ability to use docs, sheets, slides, drive, and chat. There is no way I’m giving my employer full reign over my phone. There absolutely needs to be a way to compartmentalize this madness.

Worst app known to man. Constantly says it needs to be updated when it doesn’t. Pop ups for no reason. You can just uninstall it, but somehow it still has pop ups even when it’s no longer on your device. Google offers no support. I’ve often contemplated suicide because of this device.

DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS APP, IT WILL TAKE OVER YOUR PHONE!!!!!!. I had to access my business account only to find that I had to get ANOTHER google app. I didn’t think it would be a big deal until I had to download it into my settings, CHANGE MY PASSWORD! The old system worked perfectly well! And to top it all off, it won’t even let me access my accounts for one hour from now when I have something urgent to work on. The fact this app has so much access to your phone is absolute nonsense

Wow. Cause why you have to make a separate app to work with google drive. It’s dumb and annoying. Fix it. I rated 5 stars to get more views. If I could rate it a Zero I would!

Frustrating. I’m required to have this for my work email. However it keeps telling me to “update” the app, but then the app does not show any available updates, and keeps telling me to contact my admin. Admin has spent hours on the phone with google and I am STILL locked out of my work email and calendar... which is a HUGE problem as I am the assistant director of a small non profit organization and we need everyone to be on the same page.