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I’m really excited about the new interface designer features. Airtable has given us the tools to build functional apps without getting people too deep into the database side.

Unfortunately I can’t quite fully embrace it yet – it seems like the interfaces don’t work at all on iPhones. Moreover the degradation is pretty un-graceful, users just get a message to login or use the app with little or no explanation of what went wrong and how they could fix it.

Our folks – especially some key stakeholders – are on iPhones more than any other platform, making this an important thing to solve for here. Does anyone have any ideas about how to deal with this? Does anyone know what Airtable’s roadmap is? Would love to leverage the features if I can figure out how to manage this challenge.

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In a pinch you can access interfaces on iPhone at least on Chrome if you turn your phone horizontally and login to airtable then click the share icon and click request desktop site. Refresh page and then go to your interface. It's clunky and not very usable depending on what your interface contains and is not user friendly but it functionally works for most things. This is working today Feb 26, 2023. 

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Currently, Airtable only allows "single view" interface pages on mobile. Hopefully they will someday offer the other interface pages on mobile as well.

In the meantime, until Airtable offers this, I am using Noloco with my Airtable clients, because Noloco offers great interfaces for both desktop and mobile. I even presented a full one-hour webinar on Noloco called Building a Client Portal on Noloco powered by Airtable.

And there are other mobile interface builders for Airtable as well. Some of the most popular ones are: JetAdmin, Softr, Pory, and Glide.

Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld 

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ScottWorld wrote:

Currently, Airtable only allows "single view" interface pages on mobile. Hopefully they will someday offer the other interface pages on mobile as well.

In the meantime, until Airtable offers this, I am using Noloco with my Airtable clients, because Noloco offers great interfaces for both desktop and mobile. I even presented a full one-hour webinar on Noloco called Building a Client Portal on Noloco powered by Airtable.

And there are other mobile interface builders for Airtable as well. Some of the most popular ones are: JetAdmin, Softr, Pory, and Glide.

Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld 


Thanks for the reply Scott – yeah, I suspected as much. And to be fair, building interfaces is hard, building responsive interfaces doubly so; I can understand why they don’t embrace it. And if it is important the Glides and Softrs of the world are what you want.

Would be cool to have a message that “interfaces are not supported on phones, please use an ipad” rather than sending people to the mobile app though.

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During their Interface webinar yesterday, they mentioned that mobile compatibility for Interfaces was indeed on their roadmap.

Now whether that’s on the 2023 roadmap or not I don’t know :eyes:

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Matthew_Lanni wrote:

During their Interface webinar yesterday, they mentioned that mobile compatibility for Interfaces was indeed on their roadmap.

Now whether that’s on the 2023 roadmap or not I don’t know :eyes:


Wow, that is great news!! Thanks, @Matthew_Lanni!

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W00t! Thanks for the update @Matthew_Lanni.

A roadmap is better than no roadmap . . .

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Looks like things are at least moving in the right direction – I shared an interface with a co-worker last night, she tried to open on her phone this morning and at least got a descriptive error message telling her to open it on a desktop browser.

One question for the airtable folks – is ipad browser supported? It has at least seemed to work and checks my fundamental “this must work on mobile” requirement.

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Wyatt_Barnett wrote:

Looks like things are at least moving in the right direction – I shared an interface with a co-worker last night, she tried to open on her phone this morning and at least got a descriptive error message telling her to open it on a desktop browser.

One question for the airtable folks – is ipad browser supported? It has at least seemed to work and checks my fundamental “this must work on mobile” requirement.


The iPad browser does partially support Airtable. It’s a little challenging to do some things, like creating/editing automations or scrolling around on the screen or editing fields. And it doesn’t let you highlight text in formula fields at all. But besides that, Airtable is relatively usable in an iPad browser.

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@ScottWorld and @Wyatt_Barnett 

In a pinch you can access interfaces on iPhone at least on Chrome if you turn your phone horizontally and login to airtable then click the share icon and click request desktop site. Refresh page and then go to your interface. It's clunky and not very usable depending on what your interface contains and is not user friendly but it functionally works for most things. This is working today Feb 26, 2023. 

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Matthew_F wrote:

@ScottWorld and @Wyatt_Barnett 

In a pinch you can access interfaces on iPhone at least on Chrome if you turn your phone horizontally and login to airtable then click the share icon and click request desktop site. Refresh page and then go to your interface. It's clunky and not very usable depending on what your interface contains and is not user friendly but it functionally works for most things. This is working today Feb 26, 2023. 


That is what I am figuring on resulting to. And for Airtable to say they primarily focus on "Desktop Only" is just silly for a business who implemented interfaces which seem to be primarily made for ease-of-use, which falls into the app arena.

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Matthew_F wrote:

@ScottWorld and @Wyatt_Barnett 

In a pinch you can access interfaces on iPhone at least on Chrome if you turn your phone horizontally and login to airtable then click the share icon and click request desktop site. Refresh page and then go to your interface. It's clunky and not very usable depending on what your interface contains and is not user friendly but it functionally works for most things. This is working today Feb 26, 2023. 


In a pinch, you can access interfaces on your iPhone using Chrome by turning your phone horizontally, logging into Airtable, clicking the share icon, and selecting "Request Desktop Site." Refresh the page and go to your interface. It's not very user-friendly but works for most tasks. This method was confirmed to work as of February 26, 2023. Also If you afre looking to restore your data or Fix your broken iphone screen then Visit here

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In a pinch, you can access interfaces on your iPhone using Chrome by turning your phone horizontally, logging into Airtable, clicking the share icon, and selecting "Request Desktop Site." Refresh the page and go to your interface. It's not very user-friendly but works for most tasks. This method was confirmed to work as of February 26, 2023. kindly visit here

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