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iPad Wife's MGTX2ll/A and IMGUR app

BarkingGhost

BarkingGhost

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Original poster
Oct 18, 2011
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Atlanta+35 miles
Recently the wife discovered the IMGUR website. She found me wasting hours on it on my desktop computer. Both of us tried to use the website's webpage on her Q4-2014 purchased MGTX2LL/A 128GB iPad but soon find ourselves at the bottom of the webpage where a Keep Viewing link is covered over with an annoying Open In App button.

The IMGUR app requires iOS 10.2 or later, but this iPad has happily purred along nicely on iOS 8.1.1, thank you very much. Now I have to wonder if I upgrade to the latest available iOS on the iPad just to install the IMGUR app will the app be better than the desktop in overall user experience?

Mind you the only IMGUR we'll be doing is viewing, nothing else. My reservations for not upgrading the iOS is based on personal experience with the past two iPads (1st and 3rd gen) the resulting user experience showed a slower, more lethargic experience and a reason to no upgrade.

Now, if someone knows a way to fix the current IMGUR in Safari where the webpage overlays the effing Open In App button directly over the Keep Viewing link then I would be more appreciative. I just would rather ruining the overall iPad experience in favor of just being able to use one questionable app.
 
I would rather not use the app at all. I tried reloading the webpage, but it appears IMGUR is deliberately trying to keep people from using Safari on the iPad in favor of the app. Too bad ... all that resolution on the iPad and websites still banish you to a low-rez app solution.
 
As suggested above, request the desktop site. I don’t peruse Imgur as much as I used to, but when I do, I don’t use the Imgur app either. I use safari on my ipad and invariably request the desktop site. That works fine for me.
 
Again, in order for that feature, as suggested, to work I would have to upgrade the iOS software. Version 8.1.1 does not support the tap+hold of the refresh button to get anything to pop-up, let alone an offering to load the desktop version of a given web page. Since this seems like a feature that came about later then I will upgrade the iOS software and if it slows down the iPad then maybe an early adoption to a non-Apple solution moving forward will be at hand.
 
Gotcha. Apologies. I missed that. You can check the share sheet too. The request desktop function can also be accessed through the share sheet. I’m wondering if accessing it through holding the refresh desktop button was added later and accessing through the share sheet had been available for previous iOS versions (eg, iOS 8). Just a guess.
 
Well, I knew there would be an end result that I didn't like in upgrading the iOS on the wife's iPad. It seems that the current iOS turns on two-factor authentication and you can no longer turn it off. I've never had a phone or tablet, or even a desktop computer, compromised and often attributed that to the way the wife and I conduct ourselves in digital life. But now this new iOS install on the iPad has brought about a mandatory 2FA that cannot be turned off.

And since it was never enabled on our cell phones we are now and forever more (or is that 'for evermore') going to have to deal with the "Finish setting up 2FA' notification that will not go away. Thanks, Apple, you just made my decision to move away from Apple products a whole lot easier.
 
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