Saving web app on home screen IOS is saved as app

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Hi,

Does anyone have this problem? When I save the website on my home screen on my IPhone 6 it saves it as some kind of app or something in full screen. It doesn’t save it as a normal website opened in Safari. The safari top navigation and url is missing.

I don’t have the “Native app” option checked in Bubble.

Is this a bug?

Thanks

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That’s standard IOS behavior. I don’t believe that can be turned off.

Back in the day, when saving to home screen, it used save it as a ‘bookmark’ shortcut in Safari.

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Thanks @lantzgould, but when I save other bookmarks in Safari they are saved on the home screen as bookmarks not full screen apps and when I open them they are opened in safari, not full screen as if they were some native app or soemthing.

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Usually, most sites have service workers. The ‘meta’ tags are the initiators in making the page ‘full screen’.

If you’re on a paid plan, you might be able to try this in your ‘SEO/Metatags’ section (script in the body):

<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="no">

Other than this… I’m not sure… :thinking:

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Thanks @lantzgould,

I just worked it out now. I had the option " Hide Safari UI component" in “General Options” as checked and it was including the line you were mentioning as true.

Thanks

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