[oever]

And web apps on iOS cannot prevent the screen from dimming and locking, making many type of applications impossible to develop as PWA:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254545

It's a bug that's been open for years and happens to be beneficial for the app store.

[hollerith]

Unless I'm missing something, it also happens to benefit the average user for a random web site not to be able to prevent the phone's screen from locking.

[SigmundA]

The bug states that it works in the browser just not in PWA's.

So random websites can actually do this, but not websites the users specifically installs as a PWA, which is kinda the opposite of what you would expect.

[oever]

Exactly, for example IndexedDB, which let's an app use more storage, is only available to PWA's.

With the wakelock API it's the reverse.

[hollerith]

Oh my.