Request desktop site doesn't show correctly

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  1. megapopular, Sep 23, 2014

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    Hello,

    My desktop site dropdown looks transparent. Does this happen to anybody else?

    I set my phone up as new, it worked normally then later that day the desktop mode went back to this transparency thing again. Anybody have any ideas as to why? I'm thinking of waiting for the iOS 8.0.1 update to see if that fixes things because it could be a simple setting that makes it go wonky like this. Thanks in advance for any ideas or suggestions!
     
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  2. Parasprite, Sep 23, 2014

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    Can you post a screenshot? I'm honestly not sure what you are looking at.
     
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  3. kirky29, Sep 23, 2014

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    Where even is the 'request desktop site' button? I've been looking.... :-/
     
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  4. haticK, Sep 23, 2014

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    Mine is too. It only shows with a background in landscape.
     
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  5. Parasprite, Sep 23, 2014

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    Click the address bar, then swipe down on the icons area.
     
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  6. kirky29, Sep 23, 2014

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    Ah thank you, seems a bit of a silly place!
     
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  7. jkozlow3, Sep 23, 2014

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    Yes, it's also transparent on both my 5S and my wife's 5S.
     
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  8. megapopular, Sep 23, 2014

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    I can't seem to upload to macrumors from my iPhone or else I would. Sorry!! No pc access right now.
     
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  9. Parasprite, Sep 23, 2014

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    You should still be able to upload to imgur.com and post the link (no signup required).
     
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  10. megapopular, Sep 23, 2014

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    Thanks! Didn't know of that site!! I appreciate it!

    http://imgur.com/cWtlKay
     
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  11. Arndroid, Sep 23, 2014

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    You have a search query in the up window which is overwriting the screen.

    Just go to the page you want or site and hit the url box and request site.
     
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  12. megapopular, Sep 23, 2014

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    Bad example earlier but it happens no matter what is in the url/search box....


    http://imgur.com/iK5l44A
     
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  13. C DM, Sep 23, 2014

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    Yeah, it's there and it works just doesn't show up quite right for those who don't have favorite bookmarks it seems.
     
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  14. Parasprite, Sep 23, 2014

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    Interesting, I haven't been able to reproduce this. Though it isn't surprising considering that iOS 8 Safari has some particularly odd bugs, many graphical oddities as well. This may be a temporary glitch, I'll see if I can help you make it go away.

    1. Close Safari: Double tap on the home button and swipe the Safari window up to "throw" it off the screen.
    2. Click on Safari to open it again.
     
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  15. megapopular, Sep 23, 2014

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    That was the magic answer!! I don't ever use favorite bookmarks. I figured it was a setting I'd changed but I couldn't figure out what it was for the life of me! Thanks for the heads up, I really appreciate it!
     
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  16. jkozlow3, Sep 23, 2014

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    Interesting...I don't have any favorites either and I have the issue.

    Edit: I just added a favorite/bookmark and the transparency issue is gone. So I guess Apple never tested it without any saved favorites.
     
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  17. C DM, Apr 14, 2015

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    Looks like the transparency issue when no favorites are present has been fixed in iOS 8.3.
     
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