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Jen Simmons Sep 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.

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Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo

@jensimmons as a web developer, we already have a standard way to tell the browser how it should display my web app .
Why should I be excited about Apple doing its own thing ?
I want you to show an install icon because I'm telling you that my web is ready to act like an app, anything else is a failure.
This is a feature for users, not developers.
Please, tell us why this is better than providing a web manifest (that we're already doing)