Safari on iOS 26, after tapping on Add to Home Screen. The interface showing allows the user to edit the name for the icon on the Home Screen, and toggle whether the site will open as a web app (default on), or instead be a bookmark and open in the default browser.

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   Jen Simmons (jensimmons@front-end.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 07:22:58 JST Jen Simmons

   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