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Reply to Safari/Webkit Team and Developer Communication
While PWAs have a number of problems on iOS safari, Notifications are the killer feature that is missing. Although opening the iPhone/iPad up to third party browsers would provide some competition to the safari and could only improve the user web experience, some of these problems like notifications for PWAs and adding notification settings (like normal apps have) can only be done with updates to iOS. If Apple could: Indicate to developers that they are working on this Give a rough timeline of when they think it will be available Publicly state what the blockers are and solicit feedback and suggestions from developers on resolving them The benefits of this change would be huge. There are tens of thousands of business applications that could then work seamlessly on iOS, Mac, Windows and Android with a single code base. Having to write and maintain multiple versions of the same app simply makes development and maintenance of many of these too expensive to be worth doing. I am certain that Apple has both the budget and talent to make this happen if they put their mind to it.
Jun ’21