SkieHow do I restrict apps on company phones?
Make an app list for each team and attach it to the group. Skie allows only the apps on that list, hides the Play Store, and silently removes anything installed later that is not allowed. Apps are hidden or suspended, not deleted, so data returns if you allow them again. Blocking always beats allowing if two rules conflict.
The cleanest way to restrict apps on company phones is an allow list, not a block list. A block list always has a new game or chat app the day after you write it. An allow list starts from zero and only lets through what the job needs.
In Skie you build the list in the policy library or the organisation app store. Each app has a category, and you can paste a Play Store link so the details fill in. All apps come from Google Play. Attach one app list and one policy to each group, so sales gets CRM and maps, and the warehouse gets the stock app.
Before you save, the impact preview shows what will change for which devices. The where-used and effective policy views show which rule a given phone is following. If a user installs something after enrolment that is not on the list, the install guard removes it silently. A snapshot of apps present at setup means existing apps are not wrongly removed, and essential system apps are never touched.
Staff will not be able to add alternative browsers, VPN apps, proxy apps or DNS changer apps either, because those are always blocked whatever the list says.
A practical tip: tell staff what is on the list and why before rollout, and give them a simple route to ask for another app. Most complaints come from surprise, not from the rules.