How to Add a Website to the iPhone Home Screen Like It’s an App

Tired of resorting to favorites or bookmarks in your browser? Add your favorite web pages to the iPhone home screen as if they were apps

And You consider yourself an absolute lover of web pagesFor example if you read us every day on iPadizate, There is a very convenient way to access our site now your favorites from your iPhone’s home screen. It is about converting it into a web application which is a kind of direct access to your favorite content. We will apply this tip with different browsers such as Safari, Chrome and Firefox.

What are the advantages of adding a web page as a shortcut on iPhone?

Blog readers on the Internet usually save these sites as favorites or bookmarks. depending on the terminology of the preferred web browser. Maybe with the iPhone this will change completely because it’s very strange to view these favorites on a smaller screen.

Web applications arise from the need to have access to a website or service that does not have an application. or simply to consult it in a faster way without depending on entering the browser and clicking on the favorites/bookmarks folder or manually on the address of this web page.

The curious thing is that web applications look like real applications.. This also comes to macOS and works pretty well. The ones already mentioned can look like a native application and we can also receive push notifications. If it’s not available as a web app, it still works as a favorites set on the home screen.

Safari was the first iOS browser to allow creating web apps on the home screen. You could say it had some advantage but now it is balanced for almost all browsers. Most of the steps we’ll see here apply to browsers in general.

Add a Website to the Home Page Using Safari

1. Go to page you want to save to your home screen
2. Play the Share icon from the toolbar
3. Select the option Add to home
4. Give the web application a name or add it to your favorites and confirm Add
5. Go to the start of your iPhone and you will now have this web page available as if it were an application

Add a website to the home page using Chrome

These are practically the same steps in Safari taking into account that the Share button is at the top

1. In the same way, repeat the process by opening the page you want to save
2. Tap the Share icon
3. Select the Add to Home Screen option
4. Change the page name as desired and confirm with Add
5. Check the procedure on your iPhone home screen

Add a website to the home page using Firefox

1. Open the web page you want to save as in previous steps
2. Press the 3 horizontal stripes icon at the bottom right of your screen
3. Click on Share
4. Select the Add to Home Screen option
5. Edit the name you want to set and confirm on Add
6. Your new web app or dialer will be waiting for you on your iPhone’s home screen

Does the experience change when using a web app instead of the browser?

The most notable difference is that you will no longer be browser dependent when it comes to a web application.. It won’t look like a mobile browser window with elements from Safari, Chrome, or Brave. It is thanks to WebKit, no matter which browser you used to convert a web page into a web application.

If you want to move the content you are viewing to the browser, simply repeat the procedure in reverse. Tap the Share button to choose to open from your browser of choice.

If you save bookmarks or favorites in the Home app, they will open as tabs in the iPhone’s default web browser.. This is perhaps the disadvantage of transforming favorites into a shortcut on your iPhone’s home page since it does not represent a major change. For example, a web app could perform better than an App Store app but it depends a lot on the type of application and its content. In a very personal case, my TV provider has an application to watch channels on the internet but it doesn’t really work correctly. On macOS then on iOS I noticed that the web application works much better in terms of performance and loading content, simply accessing it is much faster than in your application.

Consider trying different websites that you visit that are available as a web application.they can improve your experience compared to that of an application available in the App Store.

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