Smart app banners do not appear after being closed on iPad with IOS7

Question

In short, my team has a mobile site and an app in the appstore. We have added the meta tag to show the smart app banner. I saw it and everything worked as expected. Probl

Answer 1

This issue is solely iOS 7. In iOS 6 all you had to do was clear the Safari cookies and history. Apple must have changed something in how they store if an app banner has been closed in iOS 6 vs iOS 7. Surprise!

The following steps are what I have determined gets the smart-app banner to appear again, confirmed on a device running iOS 7.0.4:

1. Settings -> Safari -> Clear history
2. Settings -> Safari -> Clear cookies and data
3. Settings -> General -> Reset -> Reset Location & Privacy
4. Settings -> General -> Reset -> Reset All Settings

Not the cleanest, but it gets the job done.