Fix · Pages, phones and Arabic

A service worker keeps serving the old site (PWA)

What you may see

Even after deploying, some users see the old pages
The site works offline but never updates

Most likely cause

A service worker is a script that stores pages in the browser; if it was written to keep files forever, it keeps serving them.

Check first (about two minutes)

In the browser's Application tab, look at the registered service workers.

The fix prompt

What you type here never leaves your browser. The search runs on this page, and nothing is sent to a server or to an AI.

The exact error or what you see

What you did before it happened

Kept only in this browser, on this device. Keys and passwords are removed before anything is saved.

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
A service worker keeps serving the old site (PWA)

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
A service worker is a script that stores pages in the browser; if it was written to keep files forever, it keeps serving them.

DO THESE STEPS, IN THIS ORDER
1. Find the service worker file and its caching rules.
2. Make it check for updates: version the cache name, delete old caches on activate, serve HTML from the network first, and tell users when a new version is ready.
3. If it is not needed, remove it and add a worker that unregisters the old one.
Stop and tell me if what you see does not match a step. Do not skip ahead.

CHECK THAT IT WORKED
- After a deploy, a normal reload shows the new version on a device that used the old site.
Tell me exactly what I should see on the screen when it works.

DO NOT CHANGE
- Do not break offline use if the site promises it.
- 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 service worker file and its caching rules.
Make it check for updates: version the cache name, delete old caches on activate, serve HTML from the network first, and tell users when a new version is ready.
If it is not needed, remove it and add a worker that unregisters the old one.

Do not do this

Do not cache API answers forever.
Do not break offline use if the site promises it.

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