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Managing GitHub Mobile for your enterprise

You can decide whether people can use GitHub Mobile to connect to your GitHub Enterprise Server instance.

Enterprise owners can manage GitHub Mobile for a GitHub Enterprise Server instance.

About GitHub Mobile

GitHub Mobile allows people to triage, collaborate, and manage work on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance from a mobile device after successful authentication. GitHub Mobile is available as an Android and iOS app. For more information, see "GitHub Mobile."

You can allow or disallow people from using GitHub Mobile to authenticate to your GitHub Enterprise Server instance and access your instance's data. By default, GitHub Mobile is not enabled for people who use your GitHub Enterprise Server instance. To allow connection to your instance with GitHub Mobile, you must enable the feature for your instance.

Enabling or disabling GitHub Mobile

  1. From an administrative account on GitHub Enterprise Server, in the upper-right corner of any page, click .

    Screenshot of the rocket ship icon for accessing site admin settings

  2. If you're not already on the "Site admin" page, in the upper-left corner, click Site admin.

    Screenshot of "Site admin" link

  3. In the left sidebar, click Management Console. Management Console tab in the left sidebar

  4. If prompted, type your Management Console password. Management Console unlock screen

  5. In the left sidebar, click Mobile. "Mobile" in the left sidebar for the GitHub Enterprise Server management console

  6. Under "GitHub Mobile", select or deselect Enable GitHub Mobile Apps. Checkbox for "Enable GitHub Mobile Apps" in the GitHub Enterprise Server management console

  7. Under the left sidebar, click Save settings.

    Screenshot of the save settings button in the Management Console

    Note: Saving settings in the Management Console restarts system services, which could result in user-visible downtime.

  8. Wait for the configuration run to complete.

    Configuring your instance