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Re:Prisoners of Google Android Development by siva7 on Sunday August 27, 2023 @07:15PM (#37287598)
That’s not a PWA. Saving to home screen literally creates a link shortcut which just opens a new tab on your safari app. Apple never supported PWAs.
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Re:Prisoners of Google Android Development by hn_throwaway_99 on Sunday August 27, 2023 @08:35PM (#37288233)
> Apple never supported PWAs.

That's not really correct. "PWAs" actually just describe a suite of APIs, most of which Apple supports: https://firt.dev/notes/pwa-ios/.

The biggest "missing link" has been support for push notifications, which iOS 16.4 added: https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/16/23603042/apple-push-notif...

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Re:Prisoners of Google Android Development by c-hendricks on Sunday August 27, 2023 @09:28PM (#37288594)
This is incorrect.

If the app is a valid PWA, it's displayed like any other app on your device. There is no browser UI, it gets its own entry in your app switcher, etc.

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