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Is this allowed under iOS?

by deadmutex 5y ago

yen223 5y ago
Yes. Apps that are basically a webview over a site are pretty common.
- zarzavat 5y ago
  It may be common but it's not technically allowed. Apple forbids apps that are mere duplicates of a website. As with most things App Store, the rules are enforced inconsistently.
- kevingadd 5y ago
  Apple changed their policies to prohibit this
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judge2020 5y ago
PWAs have acceptable (but not full) support on iOS 14 and 15, you just are forced to ask customers to “press the share button then press add to Home Screen” for it to install to the Home Screen like a regular app.
- paxys 5y ago
  "Acceptable" is a stretch. There is no way of discovery, say via the App Store. There is no "Add to Home Screen" button (apps can only tell users to open safari settings and do it themselves). There are no push notifications or background sync/fetch. No way to play background media. Full screen doesn't work for anything outside of video. Only a small part of the web manifest file is recognized. The cache limit is a tiny 50MB, which will be purged in 7 days. Here is a very detailed post on this – https://infrequently.org/2021/04/progress-delayed/ https://infrequently.org/2021/04/progress-delayed/
  - philistine 5y ago
    You want a PWA app to do all that, you have to wrap it inside an app and put it on the App Store.
    - thedevilslawyer 5y ago
      Indeed, that is the exact specific complaint.
  - deleted 5y ago
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  - JimDabell 5y ago
    > There is no way of discovery, say via the App Store. Anybody is free to create a site listing PWAs. The fact that PWAs aren’t listed in the App Store does not mean that there is no way of discovering PWAs. > There is no "Add to Home Screen" button (apps can only tell users to open safari settings and do it themselves). This is wrong. You press the Action button in the main Safari toolbar and select Add to Home Screen. You don’t have to go into Safari settings at all. > The cache limit is a tiny 50MB, which will be purged in 7 days. That’s not correct. The seven day limit is for websites when you use Safari but don’t visit the website. PWAs added to the Home Screen get their own counter separate to Safari, and since every time you open it you visit the site, the usage limit is effectively infinite.

Is this allowed under iOS?

yen223 5y ago

Yes. Apps that are basically a webview over a site are pretty common.

zarzavat 5y ago
It may be common but it's not technically allowed. Apple forbids apps that are mere duplicates of a website. As with most things App Store, the rules are enforced inconsistently.
kevingadd 5y ago
Apple changed their policies to prohibit this

deleted 5y ago

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judge2020 5y ago

PWAs have acceptable (but not full) support on iOS 14 and 15, you just are forced to ask customers to “press the share button then press add to Home Screen” for it to install to the Home Screen like a regular app.

paxys 5y ago
"Acceptable" is a stretch. There is no way of discovery, say via the App Store. There is no "Add to Home Screen" button (apps can only tell users to open safari settings and do it themselves). There are no push notifications or background sync/fetch. No way to play background media. Full screen doesn't work for anything outside of video. Only a small part of the web manifest file is recognized. The cache limit is a tiny 50MB, which will be purged in 7 days. Here is a very detailed post on this – https://infrequently.org/2021/04/progress-delayed/ https://infrequently.org/2021/04/progress-delayed/
- philistine 5y ago
  You want a PWA app to do all that, you have to wrap it inside an app and put it on the App Store.
  - thedevilslawyer 5y ago
    Indeed, that is the exact specific complaint.
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
- JimDabell 5y ago
  > There is no way of discovery, say via the App Store. Anybody is free to create a site listing PWAs. The fact that PWAs aren’t listed in the App Store does not mean that there is no way of discovering PWAs. > There is no "Add to Home Screen" button (apps can only tell users to open safari settings and do it themselves). This is wrong. You press the Action button in the main Safari toolbar and select Add to Home Screen. You don’t have to go into Safari settings at all. > The cache limit is a tiny 50MB, which will be purged in 7 days. That’s not correct. The seven day limit is for websites when you use Safari but don’t visit the website. PWAs added to the Home Screen get their own counter separate to Safari, and since every time you open it you visit the site, the usage limit is effectively infinite.