How to View Desktop Website in Safari iPhone?

Safari is one of the fast and optimized browsers when it comes to mobile devices. That is usually a good thing when there are dedicated and optimized browsers for smartphones. Often, the mobile versions of these websites make drastic compromises to facilitate much smoother navigation on our smartphone screens.

Even though several years passed, but there are still a few websites that refuse to adapt to the mobile Safari or still provide an inferior experience on their mobile site over the desktop version. In situations like these, you guys can switch to the desktop version of the website, where you guys want to access web elements that aren’t present on their mobile counterparts. Most of the websites trims down a lot of features when they are optimizing it for smartphones. Now let us look at how you guys can switch to desktop version in Safari. This has been pretty tricky since the iOS 13.

How to View Desktop Site in Safari

We will deal with this article in two parts, i.e. for people using iOS 12 or below and for people using iOS 13. Like many of the iOS features, the ones which are dedicated for Safari, like the Request Desktop Site feature is hidden from iOS 13. With this new iOS 13, Apple has changed the placement of this option, which makes it a bit easier for someone and little tricky for others. By default the iPadOS 13 automatically loads desktop websites, so the iPad users won’t need to look for this feature after updating. Here is how this feature works on devices running iOS 12 and iOS 13 explained separately.

For the ones using iOS 12 and Below versions

There is nothing tricky here, all you need to do is just follow our instructions properly.

• For this first, open the Safari app on your iPhone or iPad running on iOS 12 or below and load any website of your choice. When the site loads, now tap and hold on the “Refresh” button that is placed next to the URL bar.
• After this, you will see a popup menu at the bottom of the screen. From here, select the option “Request Desktop Site.”

That’s it, you guys are done with this. That is, the website will reload, and you guys will now see the desktop version of the site. Further, if you need to go back to the mobile version, just tap and hold on the “Refresh” button again and select on “Request Mobile Site.” This will reload your site and show the Mobile version.

All the users who had updated their phone into iOS 13 or using iOs 13!

I know that some of you guys have updated your iPhone to iOS 13. Now by default, the Safari won’t show the option for launching sites in desktop mode in its usual location any longer. That isn’t surprising since the various features which have been moved around in other native apps by the brand Apple. For instance, i.e. if one asks an example for this, I would say that the missing of Updates tab in the App Store that will be coming to our mind first other than anything else.

The brand has messed up this, i.e. instead of simply having its Request Desktop Website option relocated, Safari has also undergone a whole lot of better in terms of flexibility. Further, you guys can actually now configure a site, or all sites in general, i.e. to always launch in desktop mode, which should come in quite useful. As you know, sometimes the brand comes with handy features like these. Okay guys, I think that you have got an idea about the same, and without any further delays, let us directly jump for checking out how you guys can go around doing all of those features we just explained. Let us start with where the missing option is now located.