Force display of PDF in Chrome Mobile

Hey maccadigital,
Thank you for your patience and the link to your page, I have tested your pdf in two chromium-based browsers Chrome & Brave, in Chrome the pdf is downloaded in the background and in Brave it is opened in a new tab. This is due to how the browser developers are handling the request, and this shows that Chrome has specifically made this change to the chromium base code.
To correct this you could add this code to your .htaccess file on your web server

<FilesMatch "\.(pdf)$">
  ForceType application/octet-stream
  Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</FilesMatch>

I believe this will work because it will specifically tell the browser what to do instead of letting the browser decide, but please note that if you search Google for force Chrome to open pdf almost all of the results explain how to change your browser settings, making it look like each user will need to manually select this option, which may be the direction Chrome is going.
In the future, you may wish to add a highlighted tip below your buttons directing your visitors to more info on downloading your pdf’s.

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
After testing please let us know if this helped, hopefully, this will also help direct future users with this issue.

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
Sorry for the late reply and thanks for your patience, I tried researching this some more but I didn’t find any new information that would help, I asked the rest of our team for further ideas.
Perhaps it would help to have a highlighted tip box below your buttons, such as “Not Seeing the PDFs?” that will link to an explanation, with a little css this can be made to show only on mobile devices.

Best regards,
Mike