Comments on: Perform Hard Refresh and Reload Page in Chrome on Android

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 02:00:53 +0000

I found (by accident) that if you tap the three dots on the page one time, the refresh option is not there. But if you close that out and tap the three dots again, then the refresh symbol appears! Go figure! And you don’t have to clear the cache or anything like that. It’s almost as easy as doing it on a real computer (once you know the trick).

By: Kushal Azza

Kushal Azza — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 01:29:11 +0000

In reply to PM. That's weird! Did you try visiting the CSS file URL directly in the Android Chrome browser? It sometimes load the cached version even after refresh.

By: PM

PM — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 16:47:33 +0000

Test website has a static webpage, using a CSS page for styles. When I change the font size in CSS, all browsers show the change on simple refresh _except_ Android Chrome. I’ve reset the Chrome cache & data from within Chrome and within Android settings. Nothing works.

By: Butch

Butch — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 11:35:33 +0000

Hi, I have tried all applicable above on a tablet/android/chrome. But no good result. (Refreshing on other devices/OS works OK)
The site (on my server) does not show up in the list of sites. Also the refresh button does nothing (besides load the cached site again).
I have tried all kind of touches etc on the display.
Any other suggestions?
Regards

By: Kushal Azza

Kushal Azza — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 07:23:30 +0000

In reply to Butch. Hi Butch, what do you mean by -

The site (on my server) does not show up in the list of sites.

By: Debra

Debra — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 20:49:54 +0000

I’ve tried all these suggestions and my page won’t refresh on Android. It’s fine on my computer, but not on my Galaxy S10+ with the latest version of Chrome and Android.

By: D

Mon, 23 May 2022 05:17:17 +0000

Doesn’t work

By: Kushal Azza

Kushal Azza — Mon, 23 May 2022 01:51:04 +0000

In reply to D. Hi D, clearing the cache and reloading the web page is the only way to perform a hard refresh on Chrome Android.

By: G

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 12:56:51 +0000

In reply to Kushal Azza. Sometimes the hard refresh might not remove/ignore all the cached data. I usually found it more useful to manually remove the cached data and then refresh the page (on desktop browsers). Thanks for the post btw. I was missing the part on how to remove the cached data on my phone.

By: Quancc

Quancc — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 12:35:48 +0000

I have tried the ways suggested but nothing seems to work. I can refresh Google Drive on my laptop which is synced to my phone. But I cant get the refreshed page on my phone. I need a few days before the refreshment is done by Google.