iOS 17’s release in September 2023 has been talked about a lot, but first of all update 17.4 What we will remember in Europe. It is he who will implement the changes required by the regulations. Digital Markets Act (DMA), digital markets legislation will enter into force on March 6, 2024 In all countries of the European Union. The text is far from trivial. Major American Technology companies, Google, Meta or Apple, will have to comply. This will drastically change user habits on iPhone.
For example, downloading and installing apps outside of the App Store will be allowed, even though the company has found a way to limit this possibility. Unfortunately, Apple seems to want to comply with DMA, not by opening up its system. limiting at certain points. Developer Maximiliano Firtman thus realized: Beta 2 of iOS 17.4 makes it impossible for all Europeans to use Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) or web apps.
iOS 17.4 prevents this useful feature from being used in Europe
Since that time Safari browser on iPhoneYou can use the function On the home screen to put a website on it. When I do this, you turn the shortcut into a web application and make him win theoretically application-specific functions. For examplesend notification, improved performance oroffline access And local data storage.
After updating to iOS 17.4 2nd Beta, a message appears when trying to open a web app Popup explaining to open in iPhone’s default browser. Of course, it loses all the benefits of PWAs. The data inside is also deleted. Following the upgrade to iOS 17.4. The fact that this only affects European users and the on-screen warning indicates:This is intentional behavior and not a mistake. It’s not yet clear whether Apple plans to offer an alternative solution or whether iPhone owners in the EU will have to do so. giving up on web applications.
Looks like it wasn’t a mistake ????
????Apple may remove PWA support for European users, a feature that Steve Jobs introduced in 2008.
????This also means no Web Push.
⚠️Installed PWAs may lose storage and display a dialog box saying “from now on it will open from your default browser”
— Maximiliano Firtman (@firt) February 8, 2024
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