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

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.

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