# Unexpected switch to desktop view on mobile

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/unexpected-switch-to-desktop-view-on-mobile/154138>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [June 8, 2020, 12:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unexpected-switch-to-desktop-view-on-mobile/154138 "2020-06-08T00:08:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 1:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unexpected-switch-to-desktop-view-on-mobile/154138/12 "2020-06-08T01:22:39Z")

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> [@Steamfire](#):
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> This is a problem with the way desktop view looks confusingly like a broken version of the mobile view, and doesn’t look like a “desktop view” of a website to users.

So the desktop view is built to be highly responsive, adjusting to fit various width screens. Desktop view is meant to work on an ultra-widescreen high resolution desktop monitor as well as on an older, square, low resolution monitor or a 10" tablet. Desktop view will continue to adjust down to smaller screens, like phones, but not everything works (as you noticed), which is where mobile view comes in.

99+% of the time users on a phone get mobile view, and all is well. Something strange happened with your phone and you ended up in desktop view.

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