diff --git a/__tests__/hooks/internal/useIsDesktopInternal.test.ts b/__tests__/hooks/internal/useIsDesktopInternal.test.ts
index 9f9b0e0c..b1ef42b6 100644
--- a/__tests__/hooks/internal/useIsDesktopInternal.test.ts
+++ b/__tests__/hooks/internal/useIsDesktopInternal.test.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
 import { renderHook } from '@testing-library/react';
+
+import { useSettingsContext } from "../../../src/context/SettingsContext";
 import { useIsDesktopInternal} from "../../../src/hooks/internal/useIsDesktopInternal";
 
 const originalNavigator = window.navigator;
 const originalInnerWidth = window.innerWidth;
 
+// Mock the contexts
+jest.mock("../../../src/context/SettingsContext");
+
 const mockWindowProperty = (property: string, value: any) => {
     Object.defineProperty(window, property, {
         configurable: true,
@@ -13,6 +18,13 @@ const mockWindowProperty = (property: string, value: any) => {
 };
 
 describe('useIsDesktopInternal', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+		// default mock values
+		(useSettingsContext as jest.Mock).mockReturnValue({
+			settings: { device: { applyMobileOptimizations: true } },
+		});
+	});
+
     afterEach(() => {
         Object.defineProperty(window, 'navigator', {
             configurable: true,
@@ -73,4 +85,18 @@ describe('useIsDesktopInternal', () => {
         const { result } = renderHook(() => useIsDesktopInternal());
         expect(result.current).toBe(true);
     });
+
+    it('should return true if mobile optimizations are not applied even if user is on mobile', () => {
+        (useSettingsContext as jest.Mock).mockReturnValue({
+			settings: { device: { applyMobileOptimizations: false } },
+		});
+
+        mockWindowProperty('navigator', {
+            userAgent: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36',
+        });
+        mockWindowProperty('innerWidth', 500);
+
+        const { result } = renderHook(() => useIsDesktopInternal());
+        expect(result.current).toBe(true);
+    });
 });
diff --git a/src/hooks/internal/useIsDesktopInternal.ts b/src/hooks/internal/useIsDesktopInternal.ts
index db8676f4..250bc62f 100644
--- a/src/hooks/internal/useIsDesktopInternal.ts
+++ b/src/hooks/internal/useIsDesktopInternal.ts
@@ -6,14 +6,15 @@ export const useIsDesktopInternal = () => {
 	const { settings } = useSettingsContext();
 
 	const isDesktop = useMemo(() => {
+		if (typeof window === 'undefined' || !window.navigator) {
+			return false; // Default to false if running on server-side
+		}
+
 		// if not applying mobile optimizations, can just use desktop behavior
 		if (!settings.device?.applyMobileOptimizations) {
 			return true;
 		}
 
-		if (typeof window === 'undefined' || !window.navigator) {
-			return false; // Default to false if running on server-side
-		}
 		const userAgent = navigator.userAgent;
 		const isNotMobileUA = !(/Android|webOS|iPhone|iPad|iPod|BlackBerry|IEMobile|Opera Mini/i.test(userAgent));
 		const isWideEnough = window.innerWidth >= 768;