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For example, the following URL shows the app in a tab:

https://www.facebook.com/just.to.get.a.rep?sk=app_203403406338325

But when on a mobile device it redirects to the mobile site and does not show the tab or even have a link to it:

https://m.facebook.com/just.to.get.a.rep?sk=app_203403406338325

I even have the application tab set as the Default Landing Tab for this page, but cannot get the pap to show for the page. Is there another format we need to develop for the App to support mobile? Ideally we would like to show the tab on iPhone app and other mobile viewing.

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  • On that external page, is there any way to force users to Like the facebook page?
    – user1211855
    Commented Feb 15, 2012 at 16:29
  • You can't ever force users to like a page, but you can certainly add a Like button on an external page.
    – ice cream
    Commented Feb 15, 2012 at 18:06
  • You can work around the problem as described here stackoverflow.com/a/15860533/121285
    – Ben
    Commented Mar 2, 2014 at 13:06

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If you're in control of the link the user clicks on to reach your fanpage/pagetab-combination, then try adding a GET parameter ref=ts

h++ps://www.facebook.com/just.to.get.a.rep?sk=app_203403406338325&ref=ts

Apparently this prevents the redirect to the mobile version of facebook.

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  • Works as advertised! Thank you. I was getting 404, but simply adding ref=ts in my redirect URLs (I force users to use my app as a page tab) fixed it!
    – Guillaume Boudreau
    Commented Sep 10, 2012 at 22:44
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    Unfortunately this causes the page to error if the URL is accessed from inside the Facebook mobile app.
    – Lysander Gray
    Commented Oct 30, 2013 at 8:03
  • url has a typo. Please fix it. Shouldn't it be 'http'.
    – Kamal Reddy
    Commented Jun 11, 2014 at 14:43
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    i believe that´s intentional, so it does not create a link
    – andyrandy
    Commented Nov 7, 2014 at 12:26
  • @LysanderGray: Did you find a workaround for this? For years, the solution provided by CBroe seemed to work. However, now I've noticed the links don't work from the FB mobile app. Maybe this is the way it was before and I just didn't notice it? Not sure...
    – rinogo
    Commented Apr 28, 2015 at 23:53
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There's not currently any way to see App-provided Page tabs on the m.facebook.com site

Mobile web apps are supported, but they're not tied to the Page and need to be manually linked-to or bookmarked, the tab functionality simply doesn't exist now.

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  • Is Facebook saying if these might be included in the future? I was at a presentation from a Facebook rep this weekend where he said that 50% of users are accessing via mobile...
    – ice cream
    Commented Aug 29, 2011 at 12:12
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    I'm not aware of any plans to change how this works (but don't want to rule it out either). If we have something to announce it will likely appear on either the Roadmap ( developers.facebook.com/roadmap ) or Developer Blog ( developers.facebook.com/blog )
    – Igy
    Commented Aug 29, 2011 at 16:39
  • Note to disappointed SO'ers: Don't dismay, check @CBroe's solution below. It may not work for your situation, but as it turns out, it's exactly what we needed! Good luck!
    – rinogo
    Commented Mar 6, 2014 at 20:49
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Currently you can develop application functions such as app authorisation but sadly no, you can't display standard iFramed tab apps, I suspect this is because of slow 3G data speeds and the fact that Facebook wouldn't want the mobile experience being any slower than it already is (dependent on external hosting etc).

Many of my larger clients are begging for it. The only workaround I use is to build an external page with the same content used in the iFrame - then you can direct users to the tab or mobile users to an external link.

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https://www.facebook.com/pagename/app_000000000000000?ref=page_internal

as of now ref=page_internal is working as a work around.

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You can redirect Mobile users to a specific mobile website, and have desktop users redirected to your page tab app.

Detailed instructions for doing this are available here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/15860533/121285

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