Progressive Web Apps on iOS are here 🚀

Maximiliano Firtman (firt.dev)
10 min readMar 30, 2018

With iOS 11.3, Apple has silently added support for the basic set of new technologies behind the idea of “Progressive Web Apps” (PWAs). It’s time to see how they work, what are their abilities and challenges, and what do you need to know if you already have a published PWA.

⚠️ Updated version of this article ⏩ firt.dev

This App is a PWA and it appears full screen -offline capable- on an iPad. It also appears in the iPad dock as any other native app from the App Store.

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Maximiliano Firtman (firt.dev)

mobile+web developer, author, trainer, speaker | Check firt.dev for more articles and learning experiences | PWAs, Web Performance, JavaScript, Mobile Apps