I have an Ipad 1st Gen. I have been using Pinterest in Safari with no problems...until now. When I try to go to the website in Safari, it automatically redirects me to download the app. Is there a way to fix this?
I cannot download the app because my IOS is updated as far as it can go, and the Pinterest app requires an IOS higher than what I have.
iPad, iOS 6.1.3
I understand that. I'm not interested in using the app at all, I already knew I could not download the app because of my outdated IOS. I want to use Pinterest in Safari, to actually go to the Pinterest website. I've had no problem at all doing this until recently.
I see. Thank you for the explanation. That is ridiculous that you can't go to a website without the app. must be another lovely decsion by Apple, because other websites (that have apps available) are now doing it as well.
would it be possible to download another web browser (such as crome or Firefox) and continue to use Pinterest & other websites that I have been usin without the apps? Or is my 1st gen just obsolete now for any website toting an app?
Ii's not just 1st gen iPads. I have the same issue with my iPad 3. Whether I clickEd my bookmark or manually typed the Pinterest URL, I was immediate redirected to the app. I don't like the Pinterest app, so I deleted it. Now when I try to go to the website, I am redirected to the App Store. So frustrating!
ive complained to Pinterest via Twitter and left a one-star review in the App Store, but have not received a reply, nor have I been able to find a workaround. For now, I'm using Pinterest only on my desktop computer, but I really miss browsing Pinterest on my iPad.
if anyone figures out a workaround, please post!
I have looked at the code on their web page and this action is intentional on their part. Their web page code can simply turn any click into a redirect to a custom URL to their app or if you don't have their app loaded, redirect you to their download page on the app store.
So either they don't care about users that are not running devices that work with their app any longer or they have mistakenly overlooked this in an effort to drive downloads to their app (App downloads are a valuable statistic when they report to their investors and it also makes it easier to track their followers usage). It is sad that they didn't throw in just a bit more code to detect that the user is on a legacy device running an OS.
Actually I just had a thought as I was typing this. it might be possible to overwrite the browser user agent so their page thinks the browser is a desktop version of Safari rather than mobile. Two side affects of that (assuming it would work) are that the site may no longer view well on a mobile device (probably not a problem for an ipad though) and second which is bigger is that the only way I know of overwriting the user agent is with a native wrapper running uiwebview. I happen to have one of those so I might try it out just for shiggles.
OK Good news is that i just confirmed that what I suggested above about rewriting the user agent to trick the pinterest site into thinking it is on a desktop and not a mobile device does in fact work. Bad news is that both the caveats I was worried about along with a different one is also true.
1. You don't get sent to the app store as was the case before. - Good
2. The Pinterest pages don't render as well, at least on an iPhone. I suspect this is not as big an issue on an iPad. Bad for iPhone OK for iPad
3. You have to use a hybrid wrapper app that intentionally overwrites the user agent and masquerades as anything other than a mobile device. - I could tell you how to do that but then your brain might explode.
4. In my case anyway, Pinterest is still forcing me to login before viewing even someone else's open boards. And it doesn't do this on my desktop browser so there might be a way around this unless they have some other way of knowing I am on a mobile device
The solution could be to disguise the wrapper webview as being on an obscure mobile device with a browser that Pinterest does not have an app for. Like maybe Blackberry or Windows Mobile devices????
Oh wow...that actually worked. I changed the user agent to appear like the uiwebview inside my app was a windows mobile browser (since I know they don't have a windows mobile pinterest app yet to force down your throat) and it not only doesn't send me to the app store but it also renders quite well on my iphone so it will surely also look good on an iPad as well.
How does this help you. Well it doesn't for the moment. But contact me if you are interested and I can give you the link to my mobile app you can download thru the apple store and get to the pinterest site thru my wrapper. UNFORTUNATELY, you will have to wait until my next release for this to work and that will take at least 10 days.
So if you are still interested and watching this thread then contact me and I may have a somewhat indirect solution for you that should ??? still work on your iPad AS LONG AS you are at least running IOS version 6.1 or greater because I think even my wrapper can't go back prior to 6.1 (apple won't even let me build an app that will run on IOS prior to 6.0 so that is on apple and not myself or Pinterest).
Hi ..
The Pinterest app requires iOS 7 or later > https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pinterest/id429047995?mt=8
So it won't work on a first generation iPad running iOS 5.1.1
Ok.. the thing is, the Pinterest won't work in tandem with Safari without the Pinterest app installed.
Ipad 1st gen: Pinterest no longer working in Safari
