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

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@jensimmons It would be helpful if we could get a standards position on the Web Install API https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/463
That way we can inform our users about the existence of this functionality. A lot of our users seem to not be aware that this possible in the first place.
Web Install API · Issue #463 · WebKit/standards-positions

WebKittens @marcoscaceres Title of the proposal Web Install API URL to the spec https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/WebInstall/explainer.md URL to the spec's repository No r...

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Oct 1, 2025 at 2:09pmPhanpy