[testfrequency]

I’m sorry but I can’t respond further, conversation is going nowhere. You clearly have it out for Apple and Google, and you are not being “pressured” into doing anything.

Critical reading and thinking would lead you through the flow to click on the “continue application online” form.

Here’s my workflow:

- Visit the main ETA site: https://www.gov.uk/eta/apply

- You scroll down just a teeny tiny bit until you see “Apply online”

- You select “Start now”

- Submit

[rcxdude]

I thought so too, but if you follow the 'start now' link you get a page full of trying to push you to use the app, then if you say you cannot all the way at the bottom, then you get another page trying to help you with installing the app, then you actually get the form. I'm quite disappointed, usually the UK government digital services are not quite so user-hostile.

[rjsw]

There is also a new UK government requirement to verify your identity if you are a director or significant shareholder in a UK company.

The online route for that goes through a couple of pages then says "now switch to the app on your smartphone". In theory you can also go to a Post Office to get your documents checked but it didn't work for me.