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Apple’s iOS 16.4 beta offers a dramatic change to how iPhone and iPad apps work

Friday February 17, 2023. 07:35 PM , from Mac Daily News
Apple has seeded developers with a beta version of its new iPhone software, iOS 16.4, with a dramatic change to the way apps work.
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Andrew Griffin for The Independent:

The company will now allow web apps to send push notifications, that will appear on the phone’s Lock Screens as well as in other places such as the Apple Watch.
Since the very first iPhone, Apple has allowed users to add websites onto the iPhone’s Home Screen. There, they are represented just like normal iPhone apps, but work more like a shortcut to the website itself.
At the beginning, it represented a way for users to have something like the app experience without having to go through the App Store. Even now, such web apps are used to offer another way to get things onto the iPhone without having to go through that App Store process, which requires separate development, approval from Apple and a requirement that the company takes a cut of any payments made within those apps.
Such web apps have always been limited, however. They are not able to send notifications like normal apps, and other browsers such as Google Chrome cannot be used to make them.
Now both of those limitations have been lifted…

MacDailyNews Take: This is a big deal that frees sites (such as ours; where web app would work just as well or better) from having to build and maintain an iOS/iPadOS app just to be able to serve push notifications. This change will arrive with iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4 for the iPhone and iPad, respectively. The public release will likely roll out to users within weeks.
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