Happy surprise: Accidentally created web app in iOS 14

[DGGoingUphill]

I just made a Home Screen shortcut from the website for InoReader and dragged it to the task bar. When I opened it, instead of launching in Safari, it opened in its own minimal browser window (like what you see when opening a webpage inside third party app), so essentially, it became a web app. Also, I had to log back in, so it seems to be storing its own credentials (I was already logged in on Safari). For this site, this setup is really useful. I tried some other basic content pages and they launched in Safari, so I don’t know if this is a bug or a feature for certain types of webpages. I hope it‘s a feature.

 

[Project Alice]

I just made a Home Screen shortcut from the website for InoReader and dragged it to the task bar. When I opened it, instead of launching in Safari, it opened in its own minimal browser window (like what you see when opening a webpage inside third party app), so essentially, it became a web app. Also, I had to log back in, so it seems to be storing its own credentials (I was already logged in on Safari). For this site, this setup is really useful. I tried some other basic content pages and they launched in Safari, so I don’t know if this is a bug or a feature for certain types of webpages. I hope it‘s a feature.

This has happened since at least iOS 12. I haven’t used iOS in almost 10 years prior to 12. But I have bad a shortcut of urban dictionary since I got an iPhone and it just opens like a webapp.

 

[deuxani]

Yeah this has been working for a while now, but sadly almost none of my favourite sites supports this (Verge, MacRumors, etc).