The GoGuardian App on iPad Release Notes

1.19.6

August 12, 2025

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New

• Expanded Org Management Diagnostics to capture WebSocket handshake events in The GoGuardian App and recommend potentially adding affected websites to Hostname Exceptions in Org Management > Installation > The GoGuardian App > Manage Exceptions.

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1.19.2

July 22, 2025

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New

• Enhanced Diagnostics in Org Management to ensure it returns errors in plain words and provides next steps toward a resolution. Please read our support article for more information.

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Changed

• Moved Diagnostics in Org Management from the Installation page to a standalone page under the Reporting menu.

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1.18.2

June 18, 2025

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New

• Expanded accessibility coverage with the following:
  
  • Improved navigation of active elements on a page in order with the Windows-native Narrator application, JAWS, or a third-party screen reader
  • Added meaningful title attributes and descriptions to frame titles, making it easier to determine their purpose by screen readers
  • Assigned proper names, roles, and states to buttons for screen readers to identify their functionality
  • Expanded screen readings to include Collection of Personal Student Information and User of Personal Student Information privacy policies

Fixed

• Fixed a bug causing delays in loading app.schoology.com and disrupting page layouts. Please note that GoGuardian no longer captures screenshots of app.schoology.com.
• Fixed a bug causing Single Page Applications to return an "entity diff contains mismatched url" error.
• Fixed a bug causing screen readers to read GoGuardian's Product Privacy Policy text out of order.
• Fixed a bug causing The GoGuardian App to temporarily show three red Xs on the Home screen and then the "Hooray!" message.
• Fixed a bug that prevented WebSockets from setting multiple protocols.
• Fixed a bug causing GoGuardian pages to trigger alerts in Smart Alerts.
• Fixed a bug causing users to receive an "This page isn’t working - ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE" message in their browser instead of the GoGuardian DNS block page when visiting a blocked HTTPS-based website. This bug only affects environments with GoGuardian DNS and The GoGuardian App installed on devices at the same time.

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1.17.2

April 22, 2025

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Fixed

• Fixed a bug causing GoGuardian Admin to not capture device activity. This bug was an edge case and a rare occurrence in The GoGuardian App deployments.

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1.16.2

March 19, 2025

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New

• Added support for GoGuardian Teacher (GGT) Scenes Conflict enhancements, which are detailed in our support article and include the following:
  
  • The Scenes Conflict banner will now show a separate banner for each conflicting Scene
  • Teachers can now see whose Scene conflicts with theirs and remove the conflict or reapply their Scene. The teacher with the removed Scene is notified that their Scene was overridden
  • A new icon in the upper-right corner indicates that the student's device is filtered by a teacher's Scene when the teacher clicks on the student tile

Fixed

• Fixed coverage for HTML pages to include misconfigured states.

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1.15.2

February 11, 2025

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New

• Released support for GoGuardian Admin Smart Alerts for Proxies v1, which automatically detects proxy websites.

Changed

• Changed routing of web servers with multiple or incorrect Transfer-Encoding headers to ensure websites are reachable.
• Improved support for chunked <script> tags to help websites load.
• Extended support for <meta> tags in Content Security Policy (CSP).

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1.14.2

January 10, 2025

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Fixed

• Fixed a bug causing The GoGuardian App VPN to delay connecting.
• Fixed a bug causing delayed browsing when switching network connections.
• Fixed a bug causing delays with browsing activity showing in GoGuardian Admin after a new installation of The GoGuardian App.

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1.13.4

November 24, 2024

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Fixed

• Fixed a bug in the logic causing students to show as offline in GoGuardian Teacher.

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1.13.2

November 19, 2024

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New

• Added support for Pause Beacon, which lets districts and schools with Core or 24/7 subscriptions pause alerts and notifications during specific times (e.g., holidays).

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1.12.6

November 7, 2024

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Fixed

• Fixed a bug causing unexpected behavior between Google Docs and GoGuardian Admin and Beacon.

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1.12.4

November 1, 2024

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Fixed

• Fixed a bug causing The GoGuardian App to crash.
• Fixed two bugs causing students in GoGuardian Teacher to show as offline.

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1.12.2

October 9, 2024

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New

• Added Pearson application domains and subdomains to Application Exceptions in Organization Management > Installation > The GoGuardian App > Manage Exceptions > Application Exceptions > Pearson. The domains and subdomains include:some text
  • *.actaspire.org
  • *.actonline.act.org
  • *.testnav.com

Changed

• GoGuardian Admin policies no longer treat www as a subdomain in URLs on The GoGuardian App deployments.

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1.11.2

August 30, 2024

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New

• Released Teacher Override, letting teachers temporarily override blocks set up in GoGuardian Admin during classroom sessions. Please read our "Teacher Override" support article for mroe information.
• Improved cross-origin (CORS) handling, specifically reworked Content Security Policy (CSP) code to minimally modify CSP headers and resolve CORS errors.
• Added the ability to capture page titles for GoGuardian Admin Smart Alerts, which will now show in the Smart Alerts card as Website Title.

Fixed

• Unable to close the Beacon student message on Google searches.
• Beacon student messages appear broken or blank on Yahoo searches.
• Continued improvements to CSP-related issues that prevent website resources from loading.

Changed

• Changed The GoGuardian App hostname rules to match the GoGuardian extensions. When users block a domain or subdomain, it now prevents access to all endpoints without requiring a trailing wildcard. For example, docs.google.com blocks all Google Docs file URLs.

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1.10.2

July 31, 2024‍

New

• Improved the ability to select the Start Broadcast button via the up and down arrow keys when accessibility is enabled.

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Fixed

• Fixed a bug causing Teacher Allow Scenes to not limit YouTube videos to only the specified URL until the page is refreshed.

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1.8.4

June 27, 2024‍

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Fixed

• Fixed a bug preventing users from closing Smart Alerts student messages.
• Fixed a bug slowing predictive search in Google.
• Fixed the tab order and background color on the student privacy bubble message to meet accessibility standards.

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1.7.4

May 2, 2024‍

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New

• Hardcoded Kandji's hostnames to avoid service disruption of MDM profiles.

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Fixed

• Fixed a bug causing users to show as Pending in GoGuardian Admin after signing into The GoGuardian App via Google single sign-on authentication (SSO).

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1.6.2

March 22, 2024‍

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Fixed

• Fixed a bug causing the GoGuardian Teacher Lock Device command to not persist through device restart.
• Fixed a bug causing tabs opened before a GoGuardian Teacher session to not show in the student tile.
• Improved the alerting of WikiHow searches via GoGuardian Admin Smart Alerts.

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1.5.2

February 15, 2024
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New

• Improved accessibility by adding descriptions, labels, and drop-shadow contrast.

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Fixed

• Fixed a bug causing some sub-page services and resources to be missing from Diagnostics in Organization Management.
• Fixed a bug allowing YouTube filtering bypasses via the Preview feature in Google Mail (Gmail) and Google Docs.
• Fixed a bug causing five-second delays for web requests made in Mozilla Firefox.
• Fixed a bug preventing The GoGuardian App from attempting to sign web requests with an expired certificate.

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1.4.4

January 17, 2024
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New

• Increased accessibility by improving element headers and focus for screen readers and supporting alternative input methods (e.g., keyboard navigation).
• General improvements and fixes.

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Fixed

• Fixed a bug allowing users to log in with the previous user's cached Google credentials at the single sign-on (SSO) screen.
• Fixed a bug causing the default browser to continuously reopen when a user closes it out during SSO authentication.
• Fixed a bug causing some websites to return empty responses on connections over HTTP/2 protocol.

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Changed

• For GoGuardian Admin Website URLs and Website Categories, the proxy is now enforced only on HTML responses. This reduces excessive blocks, latency, and the frequency of manually exempting websites.

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1.2.2‍

September 28, 2023
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New

• Improved alternative text for accessibility.

Fixed

• Fixed a bug that caused the privacy bubble to show for students during out-of-school hours.

1.1.2

August 3, 2023
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New

• Teacher on iPadOS now features Off-Task Alerts via The GoGuardian App.

Changed

• Hardcoded new Google domains for single sign-on (SSO) in The GoGuardian App.

Fixed

• Fixed a bug where logs were created for expected behaviors with The GoGuardian App.
• Fixed a bug where a block page can show when Admin filtering is disabled.

1.0.90

June 22, 2023
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Changed

• Hardcoded commonly used MDM hosts, allowing devices to access the internet on the iPadOS Setup Assistant screen. The GoGuardian App previously needed to be opened at least once for the device to access the internet.

Fixed

• Fixed a behavior that caused foreign sites to throw privacy warnings due to The GoGuardian App misidentifying the top-level domain.
• Fixed a bug that caused the "Next" button in the single sign-on (SSO) screen to not work.

1.0.88

April 18, 2023
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New

• Beacon machine learning models now capture contextual screenshots for alerts alongside browsing history.

Fixed

• Fixed a bug that caused the desktop version of YouTube.com to freeze.

1.0.86

February 8, 2023
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Changed

• Admin and Beacon no longer take screenshots of Bing.com but continue to filter it.