Private devices tailored for your testing needs
Run manual or automated tests on real device infrastructure, including smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, and other device types.
These devices are deployed exclusively for your team to meet compliance needs, ensure secure testing, simulate real-world conditions, and access advanced device capabilities.
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Why choose private devices?
Get all the benefits of public BrowserStack Cloud—features, integrations and tools—with added advantages like exclusive device access, customized test environments and real-world scenario simulation.
Exclusive access to real device infrastructure
- Guaranteed access to private devices, with standby devices to prevent downtime.
- Provides security by design, making it ideal for BFSI, healthcare, telecom, and other industries with strict compliance needs.
- Track and manage your private devices with a powerful dashboard for real-time visibility and control.
Streamline testing with custom configurations
- Pre-configure and retain apps, accounts, and settings across test sessions, eliminating repetitive setup steps.
- Decide whether devices retain or reset state between sessions to ensure consistent test conditions.
- Test on developer preview, beta, minor, and forked OS versions to ensure stability and compatibility before release.
Simulate real-world scenarios for testing
- Use dedicated SIM cards to test scenarios like 2FA, secure payments, and app functionality during SMS interruptions.
- Set up custom MDM to configure profiles, install apps, and enforce security policies.
- Access iOS entitlements and iCloud features to test sign-in, file sync, and other native workflows.
FAQs
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.
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.
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 iOS.
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.
