Request the Desktop Website with Safari on the iPad

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In this video, we’re going to look at how we can request a desktop website on the iPad, and why we may want to request that desktop website. Let’s see what I mean. Let’s go to my iPad. So I’m looking at my iPad here. And I’m looking at air table. This is a website that has an online database. Now what I have with air table is a database of all of my albums all of my vinyl records. Well, when I look at this on my iPad, what it’s doing is it’s directing me over to the App Store, it wants me to download the app. Well, the app in my opinion isn’t as good as the website.

Let’s go over to my Mac and see what this looks like on a desktop browser, what I want to experience on my iPad. So let’s go over to my Mac, I’m looking at air table here. Over on the left, we have my gallery, I can view them by album, I can view them in a grid view, which gives me all the details. And then I also have a Kanban, which allows me to organize them by artists. So I can see all of the albums for specific artist. So I have all these different views here. This is in Safari. So I am in Safari here on my Mac. Well, when we go back over to my iPad, and I go over to air table here. When I refresh this, it doesn’t allow me to view that data. Again, it’s directing me over to the App Store. And again, I don’t think the app is as good as experience as the desktop website. So I would like to view this in Safari. How do I do that?

Well, all you have to do is just request the desktop website. To do that, what we do is we go up to the double A’s here. And then when I click on this, you’re going to see request desktop website. I select this and watch what happens. I have all of my data here. This looks exactly like it does on my Mac. So when I go over to my Kanban. Here, we can see all of my different albums just like I’m on my Mac here. So here I am looking at it. On my Mac, I go over to my iPad, here’s what it looks like on my iPad. And again, I am in Safari here, I want to view them by gallery, I just go over to gallery here. And now we can see them by gallery, I want to hide my views, click on views here. And now I can just see the album art. Again, same thing with the Mac, what I’m able to do is go over to gallery here, I can hide the views. And now I can see all of the albums. So basically, on the iPad, what I’m doing is I’m using a desktop version browser.

Now the way that I did this is I had to request this. Again, to request the desktop website, what we need to do is go up to the double A’s, click on it. And then you’re going to see request desktop website. If I select this, it’s going to go back to that mobile website. That’s not what I want. So if you’re running into a problem or the website, it works fine on your Mac, but then it doesn’t work so fine on your iPad, what may be happening is it’s showing you the mobile website. So what you need to do is you just need to go and request the desktop website, just go up to the double A’s and request the desktop website. This doesn’t work in all cases. But it does work. In a lot of cases when you’re running into a problem like what I’m running into. If I go to my mobile website here on the iPad, I can’t even view that data. It’s not even showing me I have to go and get the app. I don’t want to get the app. Again, I just go up to the double A’s request the desktop website. And now I can view all of that data without going to the app. So that’s how you can request a desktop website on the iPad.