Tabs Missing from Bottom Navigation on Mobile — Classmates Tab Disappeared
Hello Glide Support,
I’m using the Legacy Free plan for my app NPHS 62 (App ID: z367vHOLkFdi57j2ykvD), and I’ve recently encountered a serious issue.
My app has 7 tabs total. Previously, all 7 tabs were accessible on both iPhone and Android phones — some in the bottom nav bar, some in the menu.
As of this week, the app now only shows 3 tabs on the bottom nav and just 2 in the menu, with one of my most important tabs — “Classmates” — completely missing from mobile devices.
- The tab is NOT hidden from the nav bar.
- It has no unusual visibility conditions (just “Name is not empty”).
- It is the top tab in the list
- I’ve tried reordering tabs, shortening tab names, and moving other tabs to the menu.
Still, the “Classmates” tab does not appear anywhere on either iPhone or Android. This tab is core to the purpose of the app.
Can you please confirm:
- Has Glide recently changed the limit for bottom navigation tabs on mobile for Legacy Free plans?
- Is there a workaround or fix to ensure all tabs are accessible?
Was it a Classic app by any chance, or was it a new app?
Hi Jeff! What are you doing working on Saturday night? It is the new app. I have screenshots that I took for ai to see if they could help. I am guessing it has to do with visibility.
Well, I don’t work for Glide, and it’s a holiday weekend at my day job, so technically I’m not working. I’m just a fellow user that’s always around here in the forum.
I guess what I was asking was if this was a classic app that was automatically converted to a new app on June 30th.
If the automatic conversion is not the case, and you built it beforehand, then I’d focus on your tab visibility. You are showing the classmates tables, but tab conditions are based on the user profile table. Since the User’s table is the one you have configured as your user profile table, that’s the one you should be looking at. Are you previewing as a user in the Users table that has a name?
I did the conversion myself and that is why it is such a mess. I am not planning on having any users. And don’t want people to have to signin. Yes I am previewing as JRR and that is my name in the Users table.
If users will not sign in, then why do you have visibility conditions on your tabs? Who’s Name would you look at to determine tab visibility. If a user is not signed in, then there is no Name for the visibility condition to look at.
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So take visibility conditions off and the tabs will show?
Yes, if you don’t intend to require users to sign-in, then the condition isn’t needed.
Without a visibility condition,
I won’t be able to have an edit pencil on each page then?
Tab visibility controls the visibility of the tab. If you want to control the visibility of specific components or parts of a component within a tab or screen, then you need to work with that specific component instead of working with the tab.
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Thank you both… I will be watching Visibility videos the rest of this evening. 
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