# Samsung Internet - unable to add website to homescreen **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/samsung-internet-unable-to-add-website-to-homescreen/412721 **Category:** Bug **Tags:** android-app, pwa **Created:** [18 בספטמבר,‏ 2026,‏ 1:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/samsung-internet-unable-to-add-website-to-homescreen/412721 "2026-09-18T01:10:30Z") **Posts on this page:** 4 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![fake\_fakerson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fake_fakerson/32/578181_2.png) [@fake\_fakerson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fake_fakerson) #### Post date: [18 בספטמבר,‏ 2026,‏ 1:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/samsung-internet-unable-to-add-website-to-homescreen/412721/1 "2026-09-18T01:10:30Z")
I’m accessing a community-run site on a Samsung Android device and using the Samsung Internet browser v30.0.0.67. The browser has an icon in the address bar that offers to to download the page as a (presumably PWA) shortcut to the homescreen, but when I use it I just get a notification saying “ failed to download”. It happens on the community site and on this website as well, with the domain in the notification being Meta. Conversely, I accessed the site with Safari on an iPad with iPadOS 27 and added the community site to my homescreen with no issue. ---
### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot) #### Post date: [18 בספטמבר,‏ 2026,‏ 3:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/samsung-internet-unable-to-add-website-to-homescreen/412721/2 "2026-09-18T15:31:13Z")
Is there anything in the Samsung browser settings that could restrict app/pwa install? Does the same thing happen if you install Chrome and try adding a shortcut from it instead? ---
### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin) #### Post date: [18 בספטמבר,‏ 2026,‏ 4:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/samsung-internet-unable-to-add-website-to-homescreen/412721/3 "2026-09-18T16:19:11Z")
For me it works fine in Chrome and Edge but it didn’t work in the Samsung browser. I tried whether enabling “Install unknown apps” for the Samsung browser helped, which was mentioned [here](https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/mobile-apps-services/can-t-install-pwa-samsung-internet/td-p/10255879), but it didn’t help. I didn’t expect it to help because the error was not “unsafe app blocked” and the other browsers don’t need that to be enabled, but I tried anyway. I also found [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/PWA/comments/1ruvnl9/anybody_having_issues_installing_pwas_from/) where the “silently failing” seems to be what happens when I try to install Discourse Meta, but there was nothing I could try, so I decided it’s time for someone else to look at this. * * * Also “add to home screen” works, it’s only “install as web app” that fails ![Screenshot_20260918_183148_Samsung Browser](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/5/e/15e6c0c10f26a1636334a37c68c59f15e826ce7e.jpeg) ![Screenshot_20260918_183751_One UI Home](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/1/f/71f33e1465fe1985e3a61247b2518fe7a5460c96.jpeg) ---
### Author: ![fake\_fakerson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fake_fakerson/32/578181_2.png) [@fake\_fakerson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fake_fakerson) #### Post date: [18 בספטמבר,‏ 2026,‏ 7:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/samsung-internet-unable-to-add-website-to-homescreen/412721/4 "2026-09-18T19:36:26Z")
Thanks for the insight. Doing “Add to home screen” does at least give the same single-tab full screen app experience I was looking for, but not sure how the experience differs between that method and the PWA that gets downloaded. Little off topic but is PWA support kind of dying off? I don’t believe Firefox natively supports PWAs and I need like an external tool to get something like PWAs working on my desktop