Define Which Users Can Use the Salesforce App

Regardless of whether your users prefer to use Salesforce for iOS, Salesforce for Android, or Salesforce for mobile web, with a few clicks you can control who has mobile access and configure security settings.

Downloadable Apps

Salesforce for Android and Salesforce for iOS are connected apps. As a result, you can control the users who have access to the apps, as well as other security policies. By default, all users in your organization can log in to Salesforce for Android and Salesforce for iOS.

You can control security and access policies for Salesforce for Android and Salesforce for iOS using settings components that are installed from the managed Salesforce connected apps package. These components need to be installed in Salesforce:
  • Salesforce for Android
  • Salesforce for iOS

These components are automatically installed when one of your users installs Salesforce from the App Store or Google Play on a mobile device and authenticates with your organization by logging in to the mobile app.

Alternatively, you can manually install the Salesforce and Chatter Apps connected apps package so you can review and modify the default security and access settings before rolling out Salesforce for Android and Salesforce for iOS to your users.

When the Salesforce connected apps components are installed, they’re added to the Connected Apps page. (From Setup, enter Connected Apps in the Quick Find box, then select the option for managing connected apps.) Here, you can view and edit the settings for each of the apps, including controlling user access with profiles, permissions, and IP range restrictions. An error message is displayed if a restricted user attempts to log in to Salesforce for Android or Salesforce for iOS.

Salesforce Mobile Web

You can control whether users can access Salesforce mobile web when they log in to Salesforce from a supported mobile browser. By default, mobile web is turned on for your organization.

  1. From Setup, enter Settings in the Quick Find box, then select Salesforce Settings.
  2. Select Enable the Salesforce mobile web to allow all users in your organization to access the app. Deselect this option to turn off access to the app.
  3. Click Save.
When this option is turned on, users who log in to Salesforce from a supported mobile browser are automatically directed to the Salesforce mobile web experience. Logging in from an unsupported mobile browser loads the Salesforce Classic full site, even when this option is selected.

Use of the Salesforce Classic full site in a mobile browser isn’t supported. While you can disable Salesforce mobile web for your organization, and individual users can turn off mobile web for themselves, regular use of the full site in a mobile browser isn’t recommended. Your users may experience problems that Salesforce Customer Support won’t investigate.

It’s not possible to access the Lightning Experience full site from any mobile browser.

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