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FYI, Lemmy and Kbin are Progressive Web Apps, meaning you can install them as regular apps to your phone's home screen (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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On iOS: tap the share button in browser => add to home screen

On Android: tap the 3 dot menu button in browser => tap "install" or "add to home screen"

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thats cool, but now it doesn’t have a back button… how do you navigate?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably via a swipe from the phone site? Most modern phones do this

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

That’s what I assumed as well, but Kbin won’t swipe…. It works for Lemmy, though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Swiping works for me on iPhone. My only issue is there's no way to refresh the page from the PWA on iPhone (to my knowledge).

Posted from kbin.social after "Add to home screen"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For me, I can refresh the entire PWA app on my iphone by hitting the hamburger menu on top left, then the home icon on the little sub menu bar top right. But you're right this doesn't help if you're inside a thread or anywhere else. Is there a gesture to do this maybe? Similar to the back button being a left swipe?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

iPhone with iOS 16 and swiping does not work on kbin PWA but does on other PWA apps. Zooming doesn’t change the situation

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

At least for lemmy it works in my iphone - i dont use the kbin variant unfortunately…

Probably you could try to zoom out of the page before the swipe… Sometimes, if a website is wider than the screen, the back swipe does not work correctly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

On Android, you can configure an edge swipe to mean "back". Though android also has a back button built into the ui, so it doesn't really mean much.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

On iOS swiping from the sides works for back/forward.

On the macOS 14 preview, the app gets back/forward menu items with keyboard shortcuts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Swipe from the edge of the screen on iOS. If anyone knows how to refresh, let me know. Pull down to refresh doesn’t seem to work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

that too