Trio Connect: Trio Education’s Apple Companion

Trio Education platform helps you manage your devices, whether they are owned by the school or by the students. We support all operating systems, including iOS, iPadOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and ChromeOS.

This document focuses on iOS and iPad devices. To ensure maximum security and control over these devices, we have developed Trio Connect. In this document, we will introduce Trio Connect and explain how it works.

Trio Connect is an application available on Windows and macOS. It installs a profile on iPhones and iPads, allowing full device supervision.

Trio Student is the agent app for Trio Connect that needs to be installed on the devices you wish to manage. It guarantees that all the rules set on the Trio Education panel for classrooms are strictly followed on students’ devices.

Apple’s iOS and iPadOS have strict policies that make it difficult to monitor iPhones and iPads without using their built-in management tools. This becomes even more challenging when you need to manage multiple devices at once, which is often the case for schools.

To address this issue, we created Trio Connect, which allows you to fully supervise all iOS/iPadOS devices by installing the aforementioned profile on them.

Now, with that out of the way, the question comes up, “What is the role of Trio Connect?”

In simple terms, Trio Connect uses Apple’s built-in device management settings to ensure your rules are applied, setting the stage for installing Trio Student on students’ devices.
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After installing the Trio Connect app on your Windows or macOS device, you should directly connect the Apple device you want to enroll to it using a cable. Then, you must open Trio Connect and select the connected device on it.
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Here’s when the magic happens! The Trio Education's profile, which is only recognizable by Apple, will be installed on the connected iPhone or iPad. Once the student's device is restarted, you should search for Trio Student on the App Store and install it on the student’s device.
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The rest is easy! You just need to open Trio on the student’s device and pair it with your Safes School account using a pairing code.

You may ask, “Is monitoring Apple devices any different compared to devices with other OSes?” The short answer is yes, but you won’t notice the difference.

When it comes to the rules you set for devices, the features provided on all platforms work almost identically. Here is what you can do once you pair devices using Safes Connect.

Set device usage limits on students’ devices. After this time limit is reached, they cannot open any applications on their devices.

Keep track of students’ attendance and online activity for the following:

If you have more questions about Trio Connect, please contact Trio Education's support team.