Fix · Pages, phones and Arabic

Buttons or links do not respond on iPhone (work on computer)

Blocks your work

What you may see

I tap and nothing happens on Safari
Needs two taps
Works in Chrome on the computer

Most likely cause

An invisible layer sits above the button, the click is on a non-button element, or hover styles make iOS treat the first tap as a hover.

Check first (about two minutes)

Open the page in Safari on an iPhone (or the iOS simulator) and tap slowly: is there a flash or a menu?
Check whether it is a button/link or a div with a click handler.

The fix prompt

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The exact error or what you see

What you did before it happened

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Prompt language

You are a senior front-end engineer who knows HTML, CSS, React, phones and Arabic right-to-left pages, and explains things to people who are not developers. I am not a developer, so explain every step in plain words and tell me exactly which button, menu or command you mean. If you are not sure about something, say so; do not guess.

THE PROBLEM
Buttons or links do not respond on iPhone (work on computer)

THE EXACT ERROR OR WHAT I SEE
[paste the exact error here]

WHAT I DID BEFORE IT HAPPENED
[write in a few words what you did before it happened]

MOST LIKELY CAUSE
An invisible layer sits above the button, the click is on a non-button element, or hover styles make iOS treat the first tap as a hover.

DO THESE STEPS, IN THIS ORDER
1. Find the element and check for overlapping layers (position fixed or absolute, full-screen backgrounds, pointer-events).
2. Use real button and link elements (not div), with enough size (44 px).
3. Put hover-only effects inside a (hover: hover) media query so phones do not wait for a second tap.
4. Test in real Safari (or WebKit), not only in Chrome's phone mode.
Stop and tell me if what you see does not match a step. Do not skip ahead.

CHECK THAT IT WORKED
- One tap triggers the action on iPhone Safari.
Tell me exactly what I should see on the screen when it works.

DO NOT CHANGE
- Do not remove hover styles for desktop.
- Anything I did not ask about: the design, the text, other pages, other settings or the data.
- Do not delete files, data or branches, do not reset or force-push, and do not rewrite history, unless you first show me exactly what would be lost and I say yes.
- Do not paste, print or ask me to paste a password or secret key into this chat. If one is needed, tell me which settings page of the right service to store it in.

WHEN YOU FINISH
Explain in simple words what you changed (file by file or setting by setting), why you changed it, and how I can undo it.

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Cursor, then follow what it says.

After you tried it, did it work?

Steps

Find the element and check for overlapping layers (position fixed or absolute, full-screen backgrounds, pointer-events).
Use real button and link elements (not div), with enough size (44 px).
Put hover-only effects inside a (hover: hover) media query so phones do not wait for a second tap.
Test in real Safari (or WebKit), not only in Chrome's phone mode.

Do not do this

Do not trust only the Chrome phone simulation.
Do not remove hover styles for desktop.

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