Although this behavior is unique to Apple, it’s probably a good pattern for all websites to adopt. Apple requires that the user make a gesture (typically an onclick event) before asking for push permissions. Once the user has installed a web app on the iOS or iPadOS home screen, the app still can’t ask for permission to push. In contrast, Android Chrome includes an “Install app” menu item for installable web apps in the browser and even lets developers implement their custom install prompt by intercepting the before-install-prompt event. When iOS web developers want to encourage installation, they usually supply an on-screen guide on their website that walks users through the process. Safari requires the user to click the Share icon, scroll down below the fold to select “Add to Home Screen,” and then click the “Add” button.

A recent informal Mozilla study showed that only four of the 10 Safari users asked knew how to do it. PWA installation is more difficult for users on Safari than it is on Mozilla or Chrome.

This means not only will you need the usual PWA code, but you’ll also need additional Apple-specific code to walk the user through the process of installing. Apple won’t let web apps request permission to send pushes unless the user has already installed them as home page apps. Apple delivered working beta push code to installed progressive web apps (PWAs) on February 16, and on March 27, just a few days shy of eight years after websites could send push notifications to Android devices, Apple announced push availability for GA iOS and iPadOS users.Īpple’s version of web push is not the web push that Chrome and Firefox developers know. Instead, Apple announced at WWDC 2022 that web push would be coming to iOS/iPadOS in a future release scheduled for 2023.

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