[sgt]

> I’m going to get a lot of emails from confused users wondering why their app is broken, now opening in a regular browser window.

Newsflash incoming for you.. Just about none of your users will (1) care (2) used the "PWA" in the first place.

It's really not that common to add apps to the home screen. Among very technical users, it's a fair bit more common though.

[cageface]

From the article:

There is no native app for The Session, but you can install it on your phone nonetheless. Lots of people have done that. After a while they forget that they didn’t install it from an app store: it behaves just like any other app on their homescreen.

Maybe you don't believe this but it was addressed.

[iainmerrick]

I thought PWAs already didn't work well on iOS, though?

Apart from opening in a browser window rather than as a full-screen app, is this going to behave significantly differently from before?

[cageface]

Apple has made some significant improvements in their handling of PWAs recently, most notably supporting push notifications. Which makes their recent moves even more discouraging.

https://www.thisdot.co/blog/the-renaissance-of-pwas

[actionfromafar]

For random web pages which have a PWA mode, sure. But there are bona-fide industry specific PWA "apps". The confusion will be real. Probably minor enough for Apple to barely register, but tell that to the users.

[macguillicuddy]

It's a single data point but the Xbox Cloud Play (game streaming service) works on iOS through a PWA since Apple required that any service like that submit a seperate app for each game that it permitted to be streamed.