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If you add a web page (a PWA) to the home screen, it can do push messages on iOS since a couple of years.
by Tepix 6mo ago
If you add a web page (a PWA) to the home screen, it can do push messages on iOS since a couple of years.
- pastel8739 6mo agonobody knows how to do this; they do know how to install an app
- DANmode 6mo agoThey make it difficult to find even if you’re looking for it. The Apple story on PWA is “Fuck ‘em until our last breath.”
- abustamam 6mo agoThe average person doesn't know this, nor what a PWA is. Source: consulted for a company that had a PWA and paid me a lot of money to make it a native app because their users didn't know how to use the PWA.
- Tepix 6mo agoWe have to thank Apple for that. Look how they hid the option to add a PWA to the home screen. Instead of placing the option next to "Add to bookmarks" after you press "..." (especially if it recognized the page as a PWA!), you have to choose "Share" (which makes no sense!) and then scroll up (at the same time it's non-obvious that you can even scroll up) past the option "add to bookmarks" (again) and then pick the 5th option "add to home screen". Very obvious dark pattern at work here.
- w-ll 6mo agothere still a lot of jank. on ios u can only doo this with safari, and even then u loose actual safari niceties like trad browser ui. and idk why but it op ens link in actual safari even if its the same app. unless u have a single page app that does nothing this is not a viable route/.