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It is said that IOS 11.4 will support the PWA, but it doesn't.
Question: Today IOS 12 released, does Apple support PWA in the 12th version of IOS? (Like add to home screen)
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As we’ve known, one year after the first initial support for PWAs on iOS, Apple released iOS 12.2 (September 2018) for iPhone and iPads with what it seems to be the biggest step forward in the last year, addressing the two most annoying problems we’ve been dealing with PWAs: reload effect and OAuth logins.
Running on iOS, PWAs can access geolocation data, camera, Apple Pay, sensors, audio output, speech synthesis, and more. In the iOS support for PWA many important features are still missing, so it’s not all that surprising that Apple decided against making a big deal out of adding PWA support in the latest iOS release.
Since the menu to open the inspector is missing when the PWA is opened like a desktop app and you need the keyboard shortcut to show it. But PWA on iOS 13 beta, it can be inspected easily thanks to upgrades from Apple. There is a new bug report app, built with create-react-app. Apple, as many other React devs, kept the default manifest unchanged.
Progressive Web Apps are everywhere, literally. Every major browser and platform has support for service workers and are using the web manifest file in some form or fashion. This includes Apple's iPhones and iPads using iOS Safari.
PWAs are a complex collection of features and functionalities. Apple added an initial support for some PWA characteristics in iOS 11.3 in march 2018. You can read a really good explanation here, with their significant limitations:
Progressive Web Apps on iOS are here https://medium.com/@firt/progressive-web-apps-on-ios-are-here-d00430dee3a7
Unfortunately iOS 12.0 doesn't seem to have improved the support in any significant way.
SEP2019 UPDATE: iOS 13.0 is here, and with it many bug fixes regarding PWAs, new installation UI and other stuff. But still no push notifications: https://medium.com/@firt/iphone-11-ipados-and-ios-13-for-pwas-and-web-development-5d5d9071cc49
MAR2019 UPDATE: This is the definitive state of PWA support in iOS 12.2 stable. It's improving but it's still a long journey: https://medium.com/@firt/whats-new-on-ios-12-2-for-progressive-web-apps-75c348f8e945
JAN2019 UPDATE: It seems like Apple is moving forward! Beta1 of iOS 12.2 has improved the PWA support. Still no push notifications though: https://medium.com/@firt/pwas-on-ios-12-2-beta-the-good-the-bad-and-the-not-sure-yet-if-good-a37b6fa6afbf https://medium.com/dev-channel/progressive-web-app-progress-in-ios-12-2-beta-1-build-16e5181f-a18cd05ca361
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answered Oct 11 '22 18:10
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