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Apple confirms it’s breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose
Well, it turns out it's not a bug that broke iPhone web apps, also known as Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), in the EU. Following developer complaints and
No surprise, the tech giant is blaming the new EU regulation, the Digital Markets Act, for the change, saying that the complexities involved with the DMA’s requirement to allow different browser engines is the root cause. To catch you up, security researcher Tommy Mysk and Open Web Advocacy, first noticed that PWAs had been demoted to website shortcuts with the release of the second beta of iOS 17.4. Traditionally, the iOS system provided support for Home Screen web apps by building directly on WebKit (Safari’s browser engine), and its security architecture, Apple said.
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