Mobile Web apps are starting to make a dent in the developer sphere and are beginning to find space on consumers' smartphones and tablets. Two British companies believe that Web apps need an icon ...

In an effort to help folks searching for smartphone apps tell which ones are native and which ones aren't, an icon for web apps has been proposed. This and more in today's Daily Wrap. Sometimes it ...

Although Apple is late to the world of installable web apps on the desktop, it is worth noting that customizing a web app icon is something that Google Chrome, Firefox, and other browsers do not let ...

Enter Icon Rewind — a web-based app that lets you switch up the icons of some of your favorite apps with an older version.

Home Screen web app shortcuts will also launch in the user’s default third party app now, not just Safari. The design of fallback web app shortcut icons is also changing starting with iOS 16.4.

The web app icon in the Dock will also show a badge when a notification is received. Web app notifications are silent by default, although developers can change them to play a sound.

For four years, we have Safari on iOS supporting the Web App Manifest (from 11.3－March 2018), but the icons declaration was always ignored (a lack of support that was never documented by Apple ...