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Jen Simmons
@jensimmons@front-end.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

I’m surprised I haven’t heard more responses from web developers about the change to Safari on iOS and iPadOS regarding web apps. Now every website can be a web app (saved to the Home Screen and opened as a stand-alone app) — not just sites that have been configured a certain way by the developers.

It’s a big difference for users. Every site gets the same experience. No more mysterious sometimes-it-works-one-way, sometimes-another.

Read more: https://webkit.org/blog/17333/webkit-features-in-safari-26-0/#every-site-can-be-a-web-app-on-ios-and-ipados

Safari on iOS 26, after tapping on Add to Home Screen. The interface showing allows the user to edit the name for the icon on the Home Screen, and toggle whether the site will open as a web app (default on), or instead be a bookmark and open in the default browser.
Safari on iOS 26, after tapping on Add to Home Screen. The interface showing allows the user to edit the name for the icon on the Home Screen, and toggle whether the site will open as a web app (default on), or instead be a bookmark and open in the default browser.
Safari on iOS 26, after tapping on Add to Home Screen. The interface showing allows the user to edit the name for the icon on the Home Screen, and toggle whether the site will open as a web app (default on), or instead be a bookmark and open in the default browser.
Antonio Bueno
@atnbueno@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@jensimmons Not a web developer but, is #Safari doing anything better than what I did with a #shortcut in a summer afternoon two years ago?

https://routinehub.co/shortcut/16316/

I tested Safari’s new feature a bit and I still can’t change the icon, or set the scope (not all #webapps are at the root of a domain!). Do splash screens still need to be the device’s retina resolution? Are they still stretched in landscape iPads? 😬

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