Private devices for custom testing needs
Real devices deployed in BrowserStack data centers tailored to your testing needs. Customize devices. Unlock advanced device features. Comply with stringent security requirements.
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Why choose Private devices?
Private Devices offer a secure, isolated environment, ideal for organizations needing exclusive access to devices for customized testing requirements.
Private devices deployed for exclusive use
- Guaranteed availability of devices, ensuring no queuing of tests.
- Meet stringent compliance & security requirements with isolated device access.
- Add non-catalog devices for specialized testing needs.
Test use cases needing persistent device setups
- Retain apps, accounts and settings across test sessions.
- Pre-configure apps and skip repetitive setup steps.
- Disable the device cleanup process to reduce testing time.
Test use cases with advanced device features
- Access iOS settings, native iOS apps, iOS entitlements, and iCloud features.
- Target specific devices with UDID access, ensuring consistent testing environments.
- Use fixed SIM cards and phone numbers to reliably test user-device authorization.
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FAQs
Private devices are exclusive real devices reserved on our cloud for your team, unlike the public cloud, where our customers use the same pool of devices.
Private devices are ideal for teams that need advanced features and flexibility, such as retaining app data, app persistence, testing with fixed SIM cards, accessing device UDIDs, enabling iOS entitlements, or meeting strict security and compliance requirements. It also supports access to native apps and settings and device allocation for specific teams.
With private devices, you can get any real device your team needs for testing. This includes those in our public cloud catalog, including standard device-OS combinations and Smart TVs, and those outside of it, such as any other device catering to your specific testing needs.
Public cloud devices and private devices are equally secure. However, private devices are ideal for teams with strict compliance security requirements, those testing complex & unique scenarios that need consistent access and control, or those that don’t want to use our public pool of devices.
Private devices are available for testing with BrowserStack’s core products: Live, App Live, Automate, and App Automate.
Yes, dedicated hosts are available for private devices. These are host machines exclusively reserved for your private devices, ensuring strict compliance or security requirements are met.
Yes, you have complete flexibility to reserve and allocate private devices to specific teams.
If you’d like to discuss private device plans, please connect with our Sales Experts.
Yes, you can upgrade devices or add more to meet your changing business needs. Contact our Sales Experts for more details.
Yes, you can disable app data cleanup for private devices. However, basic device-level checks and cleanup will still be performed to ensure the devices function properly.
Yes, we support MDM profiles for Android.
Private devices are part of our Enterprise offering, so customers get priority support through their dedicated Customer Engineer (CE). If you encounter any issues with your private devices, you can reach out to your CE.