# Preview a tour as visitors will see it URL: https://www.panoramr.com/help/preview-tour Category: Build your tour Keywords: preview tab, preview tour, see my tour, phone view, tablet view, mobile preview, test my tour, check before publishing, desktop view Last checked: 2026-10-22 The Preview tab shows your tour at computer, tablet and phone size with your latest edits: what it shows, what it leaves out and who can open it. The **Preview** tab shows your tour in the player, at the size of a computer, a tablet or a phone, as you have it in the editor right now. It is for checking a tour before you share it. Use it to click through the rooms, open the hotspots and see the Intro page. **Who can use it.** The owner and every collaborator: a Viewer, an Editor and an Admin can all open the tab, on any plan. The owner can hide the tab from a role on the Client Workspaces page, but the page still opens for anyone on the tour at its address ([Choose what Viewers, Editors and Admins can open](https://www.panoramr.com/help/client-workspaces#what-each-box-controls)). **Basic and Advanced.** The tab is in both views, with the same controls. **What it shows.** The tour as it is in the editor, not what visitors have. With [Draft Workflows](https://www.panoramr.com/help/draft-workflows) on, an edit you have not published appears here and visitors do not see it until you click **Publish changes**. The Preview tab never counts as a view in [Analytics](https://www.panoramr.com/help/tour-analytics). A tour that is a draft, hidden or protected by a password opens here without asking for anything. ## What the tab has ### Device view Shows the tour at a computer's, a tablet's or a phone's size. **Where:** Preview tab (Preview tab), three buttons in the box under the tab row: **Desktop View**, **Tablet View** and **Mobile View**. Basic and Advanced view. **Default:** **Desktop View** **What it does:** **Desktop View** makes the tour as wide as the page, at a ratio of 16 to 10 and never taller than the window less 60 pixels. **Tablet View** makes it 768 pixels wide and 1024 high. **Mobile View** makes it 375 wide and 812 high. The tour reacts to the width as it would on that device, so the phone's own bars appear in **Mobile View**. **What visitors see:** Nothing changes. This is only how you look at the tour. A visitor on a real device gets the layout their screen asks for. **Related:** [The Design tab](https://www.panoramr.com/help/design), [Mobile navigation](https://www.panoramr.com/help/design-mobile-navigation). ### The tour The tour itself, in a frame that you can click through like a visitor. **Where:** Preview tab (Preview tab), the large frame under the buttons. Basic and Advanced view. **Default:** Opens on the first room, or on the room in the page's address if it has `#pano=` and a room's number. **What it does:** Loads the tour's page with `editor=true`, so it leaves out Panoramr's branding on a free plan and shows the design you have in the editor, including a Pro theme that visitors would see only with hosting. The [Intro page](https://www.panoramr.com/help/intro-page) shows here when it is switched on, as a visitor gets it, every time the page loads. As you move between rooms, the address of the Preview page gets `#pano=` and the room's number, so reloading the page returns you to the same room. The frame is loaded again each time you open the tab: it does not follow edits made in another tab. **What visitors see:** Not applicable: visitors see the published tour at its own address. **Needs:** At least one panorama. **Related:** [My changes do not show for visitors](https://www.panoramr.com/help/when-do-changes-show). ### No panoramas message Says why the frame is empty. **Where:** Preview tab (Preview tab), in the place of the frame. Basic and Advanced view. **Default:** Not shown. **What it does:** A tour with no panoramas shows `No panoramas found. Please add panoramas first.` instead of the tour. Add panoramas on the **Tour** or **Panoramas** tab and open the tab again. **What visitors see:** Not applicable. ### My Tours Goes back to the list of your tours. **Where:** Preview tab (Preview tab), a button at the right of the page header. Not shown on a free trial guest tour. Basic and Advanced view. **Default:** Not applicable. **What it does:** Opens **My Tours**. **What visitors see:** Nothing. ## What the Preview does not do - It does not take the place of looking at the published tour. Open the tour's own link to see exactly what a visitor gets, including the Pro theme rule: a tour in a Pro theme that is not hosted shows visitors the free Default look ([Pro themes](https://www.panoramr.com/help/pro-themes)). - It does not check a headset, a real phone's sensors or full screen. The frame allows full screen, VR and motion sensors, but the page has not been tried on those devices. ## Troubleshooting **The frame is black or empty.** The tour has no panorama, or the first one is still being processed. Add panoramas, let the upload finish, and reload the page. **My edit is not in the preview.** The frame loads when you open the tab. Reload the page. Edits you made in the **Design** tab and not saved are not in the Preview; save first with **Save & Render**. **The Intro page does not appear.** It shows only when the Intro page panel is switched on in the Design tab and saved. See [Intro page](https://www.panoramr.com/help/intro-page). **Visitors see something different.** They see the published version: see [My changes do not show for visitors](https://www.panoramr.com/help/when-do-changes-show).