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While it seems Airtable is a desktop-built application, many customers/clients use mobile. A fair limitation to using Airtable for our business is the ability for our prospects to use the Sort/Filter features for an embedded view on mobile. They simply can’t interact with the data unless they are at a PC…
It is now almost a year later and this issue still exists. I have a mission critical need for this to be working for firefighters in the field working on Wildland Fires. Most do not take laptops in the field. They take their Mobile devices. This does not even work on tablets either. Has anyone found a workaround for this or heard anything from Airtable? I did write to their support email as per Scott’s advice.
I think this is the perfect example of how little Airtable cares about its customers.
A poor workaround is to view Airtable in a tablet web browser if your tablet’s web browser gives you the option to “request desktop website”. You still won’t get a mobile experience, but you will get the full desktop experience shrunk down to the size of your tablet. Not everything will work properly, either.
A better workaround would be to create your own mobile front end to Airtable by using a portal tool like Glide, MiniExtensions.com, or Softr.io.
As an expert Airtable consultant, I am available for hire to help customers setup portals, so feel free to contact me if you have a budget for your project:
Otherwise, many people find that they need to leave Airtable & switch to a truly professional database platform such as Claris FileMaker Pro, which provides robust desktop & mobile environments. (I can also refer you to great FileMaker developers, if you contact me through my website.)
