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by pseufaux 1106 days ago
Never mind, I found the caveats section at the bottom of your blog post (https://blog.theapricot.io/posts/install-on-ios/). Looks like it requires the use of Google sign in rather than relying on an email. As someone without an google account, I'm afraid this means I am stuck using Safari.
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Yeah, I'm sorry about that. I'm starting to look into a native iOS app, but it's going to be a little while. In the meantime, I think Apple did mention something about progressive web apps last week at WWDC -- I'll have to look that up.
Looking forward to seeing what you come up with. Have you thought about just enabling login via user/password? Or better yet passkeys? Overall, the app looks very clean and I love the idea. I'm looking forward to giving it a try!
I did start with username & password, but it was pretty annoying to have to type the password on the phone. I thought the email magic link would be easier until I hit the problem with iOS progressive web apps.

Now that you mention it, I'll have to re-think -- with the Google option there as the "easy" route, maybe username & password is a better backup option because it's more universal.

For what it's worth, I use a password manager on my phone (iOS) so username+password logins are also trivial.