My company fired me right when I sent them my disability claim for a valid medical reason but are now locking my iPad which I have pictures of passed away friends and family I can’t ever get back. Is there anyway to backdoor the iPad and remove Ivanti Go. I don’t care about the device but need the data. Having any discussion with my company is NOT happening- how do I brute force myself back in?
And the moral of the story is always keep personal data on personal devices and make sure to have multiple backups.
Besides that though maybe if you know the Apple account info, and the company did not disable the account, and iCloud backup was on, you could try iCloud.com and see if can get pictures there. But that’s a lot of if’s.
You have no rights to the company property. Your mistake was using it for personal things. You are not getting that data back.
Is this your own personal iPad or was this purchased by the company? If this is a personal device you can either remove the profile if it let’s you (Settings > General > VPN & Device Management) or factory reset it in recovery mode. However, if this is company property it’s for sure going to be in ABM so a factory reset won’t do any good and you should just return the device.
You mention you have data on there like pictures that you would like to have. Are you signed in to an Apple ID on the device? If so, your pictures are probably synced to Cloud. You could also maybe hook it up to a computer via USB to see if you can take the photos off that way but I’m not sure it’ll work since I’ve never had someone try that and we stopped working with Ivanti Go.
Also this is a good time for a reminder that you should never keep personal stuff on a company device. Especially if it is something sentimental and important.
Lmfao homie why were you putting personal shit on a company machine?
If you have access to the iCloud account associated with the iPad you should be able to reset the iPad using iTunes or at a local Apple Store. If not…. 
Return their device.
Hope you learned that a company device isnt for personal use!
Yes, but it involves soldering nand chips…
Personal on personal devices. Work on work devices.
You’re probably completely lying that it’s “photos of friends and family”.
I work in the corporate mobile device world and OMG does this need to be stressed to employees. There are so many times I’ve had to tell someone they have to factory reset their device due to whatever issue (almost always their fault) to restore their company access and they complain that they’ll lose data. I do not care if you lose personal data. Your company does not care if you lose personal data. Ughhhh
F*ck that- it’s being sold for parts at this point. I never synced it up with my iCloud bc I never wanted to keep anything too personal on there. The friend that passed aWay was a colleague and we took pictures with clients at Dreamforce. Nothing too personal but would have been nice to keep.
IT can eat a fat one! Don’t care about being nice to return a device. I just wanted the memories but just like Israel I gotta remember that Corporate America DGAF about anyone but themselves and will gladly annihilate anyone to achieve their goal.
Agreed. And it’s a company device, meaning we can take it back or access it basically any time. So do not store (to list a few things I’ve seen): medical information, tax information, social security info, banking info, sexual pictures, family pictures, estate info, or job search info that you don’t want to lose at any moment.
Thankfully I haven’t seen to much craziness since I work from home and do not handle the physical devices (other than if a client needs on-site support for an event or something). Craziest thing I’ve seen was just a guy who was trying to get an exception to a policy to allow him to download an app to combat a porn addiction. I’m just glad I’m not the one who had to explain why you can’t install an app that has full admin permissions on your work phone just so you can’t choke the chicken.