System version iOS 16.4 companies Apple brought a number of new capabilities for web apps, including access to push notifications and permission for third-party developers to add web apps to the iPhone and iPad home screen. The new features are now also being used by Google's popular web browser Chrome, whose latest update allows users to add favorite websites to the home screen iOS.
As he noted Chris Messina, the latest Google browser updates Chrome pro iOS provides users with the ability to add web apps to the home screen. This means that anyone can now save a web page for quick access to the home screen without having to leave Chrome and use Safari, which was previously limited to just the company's web browser Apple.
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“You can now add URLs or progressive web apps to your home screen,” the release notes for this week’s update state. Of course, this requires both the latest version of Google’s browser Chrome pro iOS, as well as devices with the system iOS 16.4 or later, as previous versions of the operating system do not have this API.
If the web application is added to the system home screen iOS, you can open and use it as if it were a regular application. So you won't be redirected to open it in SafariGoogle Chrome or another web browser. Within the system iOS 16.4 or later, these web apps can also provide you with push notifications, just like native ones.
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Apple is making a big effort to make web apps catch on. In macOS Sonoma, which is currently available in the public beta version and will be officially released probably in the fall of this year, Mac users can use Safari to store websites as web applications as well. In this regard, there are speculations that the direction of change is an attempt by the company Apple avoid accusations of anti-competitive practices related to trade App Store. Google Chrome pro iOS is in App Store available for free and works with iPhoneme with an iPad.
