How to change your user agent in Chrome, Safari and Firefox
Step-by-step ways to set a custom user agent in Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox on desktop, how long each override lasts, and what it doesn't change.
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web-development
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Can you change the user agent on iPhone?
Safari, Chrome and Firefox on iPhone have no user agent setting. Here are the four ways that do work: desktop mode, a Safari extension, a different browser, and Web Inspector from a Mac.
How to view the desktop version of a site on iPhone and Android
Every major mobile browser can request a site's desktop version. Here is where the option lives in Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Samsung Internet, how to make it stick, and what it doesn't do.
How to hard refresh on iPhone, iPad and Android (every browser)
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.
I changed my website's code but it's not updating: how to find out why
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.
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