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Discussion on: PWA vs. native app

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Meghan (she/her)

Works on iOS too!

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Bertil Muth

Interesting... I haven't seen it. Where do I find it?

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Meghan (she/her)

In the share menu there is an “add to homescreen” option

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Ramon • Edited

Difference with Android is that Chrome on Android generates an actual app on the fly, which it will prompt you to install.

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Elliot Derhay

That is pretty freaking awesome. Didn't know about that before.

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Sam

On iOS I thinks it's only accessible in the Safari share menu. And you don't seem to be able to be logged-in.

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Meghan (she/her)

It is only accessible from the share menu and you can log in

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Sam

When I open the PWA and login it opens to Twitter in Safari to authorise.

But Safari then redirects to dev.to in the browser. If I go back to the PWA I’m still not logged in.

This is not your experience?

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Meghan (she/her)

Mine does not open Twitter in Safari it stays in the dev window

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Sam

🤔 What version of iOS are you using? (I'm on 11.4)

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Meghan (she/her)

11.14.1 but I also don't know which version I added it to my homescreen :(

So I don't know if it added under apple-mobile-web-app-capable=yes or because of web app manifest, or if the functionality is even different in new versions of iOS.