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by DANmode 1106 days ago
> the user had to know thst he has to push "Share" and "Add to home screen".

So there has to be a tasteful user notification informing them that the site has enabled that feature in the manifest?

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Look at how android does it: By some heuristic (i.e. visiting the site regularly and interacting with it), Chrome will suggest you install the App (using Chromes UI). Additionally, you can have a custom UI button on your website, that triggers the install (user interaction is required to avoid install spam).

Neither works for Safari/iOS. The only way to help the user, is to show a step-by-step tutorial how he has to navigate his iOS Safari to install. And on top of that, nothing is shared between the installed PWA and the Safari instance - always requiring the user to re-login after install. It is just poor UX.