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> Web applications added to the home screen are not part of Safari and thus have their own counter of days of use. Their days of use will match actual use of th
by untog 7y ago
> Web applications added to the home screen are not part of Safari and thus have their own counter of days of use. Their days of use will match actual use of the web application which resets the timer.
This is a baffling word salad. So they are tracking days of use of home screen web apps... which sounds like it means that if you do not use the app for seven days the cache will be deleted... but they don't expect a web app to have its data deleted. What?
- iameli 7y agoThe only coherent interpretation I can think of is that accessing example.com in a home screen app doesn't reset the timer for example.com in Safari. And vice versa. But it's still really unclear whether that implies that home screen apps get their data wiped or not.
- jsmith45 7y agoHome screen installed PWAs are treated as a separate web browser. For all web browsers, content is only deleted after 7 days in which you use that browser. So if you shut for phone off for a month, and then turn it on, and open safari, that whole month only counts as one day, since you did not use the safari browser during that month. The same rules apply to PWAs installed to the home screen, which are being treated as seperate browsers. Of course, the count of days of use of this "browser" without using the main site will always remain zero. But for third party cookies, or third party content from an iframe that uses local storage, those would get nuked if the home screen installed PWA is used on 7 different days without interacting with those domains.