Apple Crippling PWAs

The cluster discusses Apple's deliberate limitations and hostility towards Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) on iOS Safari, including poor support, installation difficulties, and missing features to favor native App Store apps. Commenters contrast this with better PWA support on Android and debate PWAs as alternatives to native apps.

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slaymaker1907 Aug 1, 2017 View on HN

And supposedly we don't need PWAs according to Apple...

spiderfarmer Jun 19, 2020 View on HN

Apple also cripples PWA's so that's not an option.

radiKal07 Nov 19, 2020 View on HN

Apple is very hostile towards PWA, lots of stuff unsupported by Safari

kevingadd Nov 5, 2021 View on HN

"There is always PWAs" isn't an especially good answer when PWAs and webapps in general are aggressively hobbled in iOS Safari

jqpabc123 Aug 19, 2025 View on HN

The problem with PWA --- Apple don't like it.

iainmerrick Mar 13, 2024 View on HN

Isn't this about native iOS apps, not PWAs?

namanaggarwal Oct 9, 2020 View on HN

What problem does Apple have with PWAs (apart from monetary ones ofcourse), how are they justifying not implementing features in browser for a good PWA?

brookst Jan 21, 2023 View on HN

Why haven’t PWA’s displaced native Android apps? That can’t be Apple’s fault, can it?

stupidbird Dec 26, 2018 View on HN

Unless Apple drags their feet with PWA implementation a native iOS app might not be needed?

threeaccents Oct 29, 2017 View on HN

PWAs are not supposed to replace native apps just to augment today's web apps.