[bnt]

I strongly dislike this. My grandparents are on Android and they are driven mad by every site pushing them notifications, 24/7. We're talking about non-tech people, 70+ years old. I ended up turning off notifications for them altogether because I couldn't find a fix. On iOS this is easy, Safari won't have access to notifications on my phone.

[smashed]

You have to add the web app to the home screen, then the app needs to ask permission on a click event, the user needs to grant the permission and then focus mode, etc can still filter them out.

In many cases, you have a perfectly functional web app and the only feature you would gain from publishing a native mobile app would be push notifications. Apple used to gate this feature behind its app store/developer program. Now you have an alternative, and I think it was long overdue.

[lelandfe]

This is just for "Home Screen web apps", aka PWAs. No data for this one, but I'm comfortable saying grandparents largely do not install PWAs.

[jefftk]

This is only for websites you intentionally add to your homescreen, though?