# I almost f#cked up a project **URL:** \ **Category:** Project Showcase\ **Created:** [January 16, 2025, 10:12am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/i-almost-f-cked-up-a-project/79237 "2025-01-16T10:12:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Daniel\_van\_Veldhoven](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/daniel_van_veldhoven/32/66945_2.png) [@Daniel\_van\_Veldhoven](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Daniel_van_Veldhoven)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 10:12am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/i-almost-f-cked-up-a-project/79237/1 "2025-01-16T10:12:05Z")
Don’t worry, it all ended perfectly fine. But it is something worthwhile keeping in mind while you are developing software for others. **Backstory.** I’m an animator and I deliver a massive amount of content to all kind of people. The other day I had to deliver 500 different animations; to 500 different people. So I used Glide to make this interface; people would access a page with their own unique code (no need for login) and get the file dedicated to them (email them the files wasn’t possible for multiple reasons). It was build and I tested it a couple of times on different systems. Except on Iphone. The mistakes: - I made a button which said “Download” - but in reality it was just a link towards the file. That is a bad call on my side; but I tought it would work out fine because on every system I tried; I was able to download. - Apparently when you open a link on Iphone; a direct link towards a video file. You cannot save it from safari! Which is completely mindboggling to me. Every Iphone user I ask to download a specific file; can’t do it. Next steps: - Considering buying an Iphone to test this stuff as well. Already got android, apple and a pc. - Find a better way to make sure users can download files from Glide to their device. **Feature Request (will make seperate post)** Can we have a download action? That downloads the file instead of opening it? ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 12:13am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/i-almost-f-cked-up-a-project/79237/2 "2025-01-17T00:13:35Z")
> [@Daniel\_van\_Veldhoven](#): > > So I used Glide to make this interface; people would access a page with their own unique code Please note that if this means people inputting a code to see their stuff, and not role/row owners, it isn’t good practice and can get you into trouble. > [@Daniel\_van\_Veldhoven](#): > > Apparently when you open a link on Iphone; a direct link towards a video file. You cannot save it from safari! Which is completely mindboggling to me. Every Iphone user I ask to download a specific file; can’t do it. Can confirm this has been a Safari/iOS problems for years and they never fix it. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_van\_Veldhoven](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/daniel_van_veldhoven/32/66945_2.png) [@Daniel\_van\_Veldhoven](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Daniel_van_Veldhoven)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 8:29am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/i-almost-f-cked-up-a-project/79237/3 "2025-01-17T08:29:01Z")
Yeah, the roleowner is something that I was already doing! Thx And thank you for confirming that iOS has that problem. Realllly annoying. ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 12:41am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/i-almost-f-cked-up-a-project/79237/4 "2025-01-18T00:41:34Z")
> [@Daniel\_van\_Veldhoven](#): > > And thank you for confirming that iOS has that problem. Realllly annoying. iOS/Safari heavily leans towards displaying the file first before allow downloading, due to security reasons. I’m not sure if Glide can do something about that to be honest. I tried using HTML (with a and download tag), but I recall it didn’t go anywhere.