Sophos Secure Workspace Version 5.0 for iOS release notes

New in this release 

Renaming of app name from Sophos Mobile Encryption to Sophos Secure Workspace

The app was renamed from Sophos Mobile Encryption to Sophos Secure Workspace to better reflect that Sophos Secure Workspace is the central, secured workspace for a user's documents. With the new feature corporate documents Sophos Secure Workspace includes one more additional feature specially supporting corporate environments, with much more features to follow in the next releases.

PDF editing and annotation

Sophos Secure Workspace now allows to edit and annotate PDF within the application by using a built-in PDF editor. Sophos Secure Workspace integrate a PDFTron library. For an overview of the many PDF editing / annotation features now available for Sophos Secure Workspace please visit this PDFTron site here: https://www.pdftron.com/pdfnet/features.html.

UI-refresh

The UI of Sophos Secure Workspace was completely re-designed and now aligns to the new blue UI of all mobile apps.

Corporate Documents Provider
When Sophos Secure Workspace is managed, a new feature on the Sophos Mobile Control 5.0 server - the corporate documents provider - allows to distribute corporate documents to a manages Sophos Secure Workspace. The corporate documents provider is a special provider shown in the list of the storage providers. The admin uploads documents to the Sophos Mobile Control 5.0 server and defines certain access rules. The user then can browse and view that documents on his device. For details on this feature, please see the documentation of Sophos Mobile Control 5.0.

Please Note: This feature requires a iOS device managed by a Sophos Mobile Control 5.0 or higher server.

Several smaller improvements
The new version of Sophos Secure Workspace includes several smaller improvements, e.g.:

 * The user can now encrypt plain files directly within the app (so called In-place encryption)
 * The user can now encrypt entire folders
 * The app now checks if new versions of the app are available on the store and reminds the user to update if so
 * The app can now be unlocked using fingerprint authentication 

System Requirements

Sophos Secure Workspace runs on the following platforms:

Compatible devices have to run iOS 6.x or higher.

Supported Storage Providers

Sophos Secure Workspace supports following storage providers:

Installation

Installation of the application must be done via the Apple iTunes App Store.

Known Issues

Dropbox Authentication

File Sync

A crash may occur on an iOS tablet when the user views managed Sophos Secure Workspace in portrait mode and the Sophos Mobile Control admin denies network access

File List

Technical support

You can find technical support for Sophos products in any of these ways:

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