Installable website for iOS

  • Resolved buehda

    (@buehda)


    7 years ago

    Hi there

    Your plugin looks great! Although I didn’t manage it to work with my website.

    It’s clear to me that the push function doesn’t work on iphones, but shouldn’t it be possible to at least install the wordpress-site on the home screen of an iphone and then surf the website like a standalone app (without UI elements of safari)?

    For me that doesn’t work.

    Thanks for your help & cheers
    d.

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  • Plugin Author Nico Martin

    (@nico_martin)

    Hi @buehda

    The plugin is based on progressive web app features. Such as a web app manifest and a serviceworker. Unfortunately those are not yet aviable for iOS. Thats why push and as well the offline and installable features won’t work on iOS.

    Those features are in development at Apple/Safari and according to various predictions it will only be a matter of weeks untill it will be implemented.

    But if you need further help configuring PWA for your site I’d be happy to have a look!

    Kind regards,
    Nico

    Thread Starter buehda

    (@buehda)

    Hi Nico

    Thanks for your reply. Looking forward for iOS to implement the PWA features!

    But in the meantime, what are the solutions to get a website like a standalone app? There are plenty around which work fine with my iPhone, but I don’t know how they technically work. Implementing meta info in the head works only for the home page, but when I open a sub-page, the Safari UI appears…

    This works only for the home page:

    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black">

    Probably those websites where it already works are not WordPress, but it would be nice to know a way to accomplish it for wordrpess without PWA!

    Cheers

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