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Lloyd Coombes

Apple backtracks iOS 17.4 web app changes in EU just weeks after citing "security and privacy concerns"

IPhone 14 Pro Dynamic Island on home screen.

Remember last month when Apple said it'd remove support for web apps on the Home Screen from iOS 17.4 onwards? Apple appears to have changed its trajectory ahead of the next OS update.

Apple had said replicating web-based applications through Safari on the Home Screen, complete with push notifications and logins, would require an "entirely new integration architecture that does not currently exist in iOS", also suggesting the feature had a low adoption rate and wasn't used enough to make that viable.

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