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Mobile browsers have no hard refresh. Here is the least destructive way to get a fresh copy of a page in Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Samsung Internet on iPhone, iPad and Android, and what each option costs you.
You saved, built and deployed, and the page still looks the same. Test each layer in order, from your editor to your browser's cache, to find the stale copy, starting with a hard refresh.
A hard refresh is a keyboard shortcut on every desktop browser and a missing feature on every mobile one. Here is exactly what each browser supports, on which platform, and what the mobile workarounds actually cost you.
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