Have you ever needed to force refresh a website with the Brave browser on a mobile device like iPhone or Android phone?
The need to do that may arise, for example, when developing websites for WordPress, because WordPress will attempt to cache the CSS files and your latest changes might not be reflected even if you reload the page.
Many websites advice you to go to the browser cache settings and clear the entire cache. But that is an overkill -there is a better and simpler way:
The easiest way to force Brave to force refresh on your mobile device is to switch the browser to desktop mode from the menu with the three dots. The feature is called “Request desktop site”. After switching to that, you can then switch back to a regular mobile page and the cache should be updated.
It’s as simple as that!
If even that is not working, there is a couple of other things you can attempt:
- Click on the slider icon right to the address bar and delete the cookies and data for that particular site
- Open the site in a private incognito tab
- Use a cache busting method like embedding a query string with a changing version number after the resource name.
