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Apple confirms home screen web apps will no longer work on European iOS devices


Apple has confirmed that it's deliberately disabling progressive web apps (PWAs) in the EU, it wrote in updated developer notes.

The complete absence of Web Apps in Apple's DMA compliance proposal, combined with the omission of this major change from Safari beta release notes, indicates to us a strategy of deliberate obfuscation. A concrete proposal with clear timelines, outlining how third party browsers could install and power Web Apps using their own engines, could prevent formal proceedings, but this looks increasingly unlikely. The EU, Japan, Australia and the UK have previously criticized the requirement for WebKit to run PWAs, according to the Open Web Advocacy(OWA).

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