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I love the idea of making it as easy as possible to listen to the audio version of the scriptures. It would be great if you could request a particular verse through voice on standalone devices like Amazon Echos and Google Homes, as well as on mobile devices. We should make it smart enough to know if...

The device does need to be a Samsung Tab S2 and does need to be able to run Marshmallow. But almost all Samsung Galaxy Tab S2s running Lollipop can be updated to Marshmallow for free. The rare exceptions are ones that are rebranded as Nooks, ones that are locked to some cellular data providers, and ...

Requests for changes to apps and websites approved for use by missionaries on mobile devices come through mission presidents. If a mission president is supportive of the need, they have a way to make the request.

Paul Scherbel
Product Manager, Missionary Mobile Devices

I recently had a sister from my ward receive her call to a mission in the United States. In the paperwork from the mission, it asked that they bring with them an Android tablet device. Our missionaries currently have the Ipad mini's provided by the Church and I had not heard of missions requiring A...

Stake technology specialists (STSs) and others with access to Technology Manager (TM) should now be able to access TM directly from the LDS.org Tools menu after signing in.

Update: A larger wave of meetinghouses are scheduled to have DNS locked down today to only allow Church-specified Domain Name System (DNS) entries. Any devices connected to Meetinghouse Internet that have been set to use non-Church specified DNS servers should be changed to use approved Church meeti...

Please be aware that a new job opportunity has recently been posted with the Church's Information and Communication Services (ICS) department. Would you (or someone you know) be an excellent candidate? https://careers.ldschurch.org/public/jobdetail.aspx?jobid=114687 Questions about this position may...

russellhltn wrote: The real question is can you get GS to disable it?

The GSC should be able to do this as long as you aren't requesting it to only be disabled temporarily.

I did receive the "Meeting House Internet Change" email discussed in this thread, but what is not outlined in the email, and what I didn't realize until speaking with GSC, is that zPath is a DNS based filtering solution. DNS based filtering is easy to subvert unless additional steps are t...

My notice came via email, although I have no idea if that is because I am the STS or because I am subscribed to Tech messages at my LDS Account. For some reason I usually don't get messages sent to the STS (although I am shown as one), so I suspect the latter. An explanation of how this works is av...