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.

There’s no way to change the underlying browser, Chrome on iOS also falls back to Webkit. If there were any Android devices using the specific Webkit version reported they would be affected too. One of the perks of Android is that they update the browser independently. It’s a perk in principle, at …

Yea now the problem is I can’t even add it to home screen without it launching in that mode. So I guess it’s really broken now

Yeah until Apple releases some kind of fix it might be worth having someone disable the hidden pwa_display_browser_regex setting.

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…

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: https://medium.com/@firt/pwas-on-ios-12-2-beta-the-good-the-bad-and-the-not-sure-yet-if-good-a37b6fa6afbf

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?

Back button in iOS PWA

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jaihaze (Jai Haze) November 11, 2018, 10:13pm 86

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

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