Jen SimmonsSep 30, 2025

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

Show threadPeter Saathoff-Harshfield
@jensimmons This is great to see, but it doesn’t work well in a few ways, at least with the site I have had on my home screen for several years, https://text.npr.org/. The favicon isn’t picked up, I can’t use a dark mode style extension, and I can’t pull to refresh. All three of those work/worked when it just opened a Safari tab. I could be missing something though.
NPR : National Public Radio

Sep 30, 2025 at 11:09pmMona for iPhone