Is it possible to download a blob file in Edge on iOS?

Question

I'm trying to support downloading a file from an API in Edge on iOS. The file is downloaded as a blob, and we already have solutions in place for downloading on Safari and Chrome (Using createObjectUrl and readAsDataUrl respectively), but neither of these seem to work on Edge on iOS.

I can't find anything online around how to do this, and even FileReader doesn't seem to support it.

I have tried to download using solutions that work consistently in Chrome on iOS and Safari on iOS.

Edit: Edge on iOS uses Safari's rendering engine, so any IE11 or Edge on Desktop focused solutions will not work here.

Answer 1

In the IE/Edge browser, you could try to use window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob method to download the file. You could check these article: thread 1 and article 1 . Code like this:

showFile(blob){
  // It is necessary to create a new blob object with mime-type explicitly set
  // otherwise only Chrome works like it should
  var newBlob = new Blob([blob], {type: "application/pdf"})

  // IE doesn't allow using a blob object directly as link href
  // instead it is necessary to use msSaveOrOpenBlob
  if (window.navigator && window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob) {
    window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob(newBlob);
    return;
  } 

  // For other browsers: 
  // Create a link pointing to the ObjectURL containing the blob.
  const data = window.URL.createObjectURL(newBlob);
  var link = document.createElement('a');
  link.href = data;
  link.download="file.pdf";
  link.click();
  setTimeout(function(){
    // For Firefox it is necessary to delay revoking the ObjectURL
    window.URL.revokeObjectURL(data);
  , 100}
}