I have saved discourse on my iPhone as short cut app since discourse is PWA but I found one simple feature is missing. Which is going Back button. I tried to swipe left but not working. Is there any hidden tip to do this?

That’s us, not Apple. We implemented back/forward support on iOS PWA. It will land soon in the DiscourseHub app as well.

That’s the issue 185400 describes, the cookie context between Safari and a PWA is no longer shared. Sadly Apple doesn’t make the status of the stuff they’re tracking on Radar public, so until they issue a fix there’s really not much that can be done, short of the app you’re pursuing. They stoppe…

How do I save a bookmark without it trying to go thru pea. Now it’s even worse

One of the team needs to disable the hidden site setting if you don’t want home screen bookmarks to PWA while they’re broke.

yeah i have emailed them, thanks again @Stephen

Looks like lots of fixes are coming in the next Safari: [image] PWAs on iOS 12.2 beta: the good, the bad, and the “not sure yet if good” A year ago, in January 2018, Apple surprised everyone with its early support for Progressive Web App technologies in iOS 11.3 beta. At… Readi…

Since iOS 12.2 is live with lots of fixes for PWA, the standalone mode is whitelisted here in Meta for now. Gestures are working Authentication on Social Logins appear to be working too Web Share API works @awesomerobot do you have any ideas about how a back button would look like.

I tried and swipe to go back works why do we need a back button? And also how can I activate standalone mode on my discourse installation?

[image] Lloyd_Lau: I tried and swipe to go back works why do we need a back button? Some may say it’s not that easy for users to discover this feature. [image] Lloyd_Lau: And also how can I activate standalone mode on my discourse installation? There is a hidden site setting with a re…

[image] Falco: Some may say it’s not that easy for users to discover this feature. They probably said the same thing about double-clicking the mouse! Still not a great paradigm, for the record… Double-Click Must Die Recently, we had this strange problem with a particular smart …

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