How to Use Web Apps on iPhone and iPad

[8000XE]

Like you, my work prevents me from using Outlook on my personal iPhone and, therefore, I'm forced to rely on the O365 website. While I'd love it if the O365 web app fully supported push notifications using the web app, I'm not sure it would be useful for me and likely many others, as my work automatically signs me out of the O365 website after a ridiculously short period of time --- I think 10 minutes.

Fortunately I can keep my login session for 24 hours - but I understand your scenario also

 

[inkswamp]

Perhaps the greatest is losing the last of a sense of "ownership" of an app. The app owner can effectively pull it at any time. They can change the look and feel at will. The concept of ownership has eroded over the decades but this effectively ends it (should it become the norm). Essentially we're returning to the days of the raise-floor, glass-walled centralized computer room. But this is best left for another thread.

Good point. Would be nice if a caching mechanism were built in to webapp platforms to allow things to be "semi-installed." Would alleviate that issue and allow people to retain what they have. Still, that would really only work for self-contained apps that don't rely on any kind of remote back-end that could be changed or shut down.

 

[PixelatedDad]

TL: DR it took me a little while to work out how to get my PWA to show push messages.

They need to be enabled. I assume this is because it’s still beta and experimental.

In ios16.4 -
Go to Settings -> Safari -> Advanced -> Experimental Features and make sure Push API, Service Workers and Notifications are all enabled. I am assuming these will be enabled by default as IOS16.4 gets public releases…

Also the PWA has to be installed to the Home Screen. Not just viewed via safari.

I wrote up a post on my site about my findings (Link in my Profile)

 

[James51]

As a tech company, we've been exploring the possibility of replacing SMS notifications with Push notifications. We've noticed that dental practices, for instance, spend over $600 a month on SMS notifications for appointment updates like confirmations, bookings, advice, and late messages. By switching to Push notifications, these practices could potentially save a substantial amount of money. While we understand that implementing this change would require users to download our booking web app, it's worth noting that many other companies, such as Uber Eats and Uber, have successfully implemented similar approaches. So why not us?

 

[MacFarmer]

Is there a web app for Youtube? I mean, if there is a page that automatically has youtube ad bocking enabled. This is the only feature I'm looking the most in iPhone. Youtube ads are getting ridiculous. On the other hand, it is good - I now watch way less of it.

 

[redbeard331]

TL: DR it took me a little while to work out how to get my PWA to show push messages.

They need to be enabled. I assume this is because it’s still beta and experimental.

In ios16.4 -
Go to Settings -> Safari -> Advanced -> Experimental Features and make sure Push API, Service Workers and Notifications are all enabled. I am assuming these will be enabled by default as IOS16.4 gets public releases…

Also the PWA has to be installed to the Home Screen. Not just viewed via safari.

I wrote up a post on my site about my findings (Link in my Profile)

Thank you for this, none of the tech sites explain any of these things, I went into my settings and found most this stuff turned off. Haven’t been able to get web push notifications to work yet, I’ll see if this does the trick!