Phone app hidden fields

Don’t know if it’s normal, but I see it as well. I’d like to see hidden fields hidden on mobile as well.

This is “normal” (as in, “by design”) for now.

A hidden field is hidden from the mobile card view, but it is still shown when the record is expanded. Similarly, on the web browser, a hidden field is hidden from the grid view, but shown when the record is expanded.

We realize this can be confusing, so we’re considering changes to make hidden field behavior a bit less surprising!

Hi Emmett,

I was just checking on this since we are running into the same issue at our company. I know this is intended functionality but it would be great to have a button at the top right that allows you to show/hide hidden cells. Also I recognize this is an old thread.

Perhaps have the cells hidden by default, unless you tap “show”?

any update on hiding what’s hidden on android app? I have many columns that are hidden but when they show up on mobile it makes it difficult to navigate and find the right columns

Same here it is very surprising, as the goal of our views is to make sure people see only the info they need.

Any updates on this? I’m finding data entry quite confusing on the app due to all the hidden fields appearing.

has been quite a long time but no update, is there a product roadmap or a table where planned released are published?

Yeah, this should at leas be the same as an expanded view on desktop where hidden fields are grouped under a toggle at the bottom. I agree with previous users. I don’t want to see all these fields on any device when I hide them.

I am considering using Airtable for a startup as it mostly suits their needs, however, this is a real issue. I am concerned that it has been open for two years and Airtable have only commented once on this.

The fact that the app which is certainly where most of the data entry will be doesn’t hide the fields when the record is expanded seems odd, particularly when forms do not work on the app and therefore it is the only method of data entry available.

Can you give an update on this, please?

Our organization is too extremely disappointed that this problem ever and continues to exist having been a known issue for a very long time now. I echo the request for a roadmap on fixing this.

Wow! Four years since this was brought to light and still no change? Airtable, please help us out. This functionality is crucial to our workflow and the lack of it is a major roadblock in efforts to expand our use of Airtable across the organization.

Still no solution here? Major limitation for our implementation as we can’t hide some info from some users on mobile app, thus making mobile app useless. How hard can this be to fix?

@airtable We are now in 2021 and your in danger of being left behind with something so simple to rectify that makes the ios app so complicated to use!
Is this ever going to get put right or do we have to scrap using airtable and use other feature rich products that do actually do this ?
I love airtable, but this is a huge problem for all the guys on the shopfloor that use tablets…
Thanks

Hi Airtable, I have just joined to see if this will work for our company and this is the first thread that I can see.
It is a little concerning that the developers don’t pay much attention to their customers suggestions and requests, not even an answer.

To all those out there, I have not settled on an app / web based CRM system as yet. Is there a better one as this?