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Comment by zuhsetaqi | Hacker News Reader

> A new icon appears, not marked with a "New" bubble.

How is this considered step in installing an app from the web?

I think they're trying to point it out as Apple being petty and providing a sub-standard experience, however this is exactly how it's worked for a decade for anyone beta testing outside of TestFlight, or using an MDM.

I've never seen a "New" bubble on the icon for a newly installed app from the Apple app store. I just tried it on both my iPad and my iPhone, and no bubble.

The iPad is new, running the current iPadOS. The iPhone is too old for the current. Is this something they added in 17 for iPhone but not iPad, something they have added but only in Europe, or what?

It's a blue dot before the App name below the App icon. It's there until you open it the first time

Is this iPhone only and new in 17 or Europe only? I don't get this on my iPad with has 17.3.1, and my iPhone has 16.something. I'm in the US.

It's been a thing since around iOS 8.

I think it only shows when an install/update is done without user interaction (e.g. auto-updates, or when you've got "Automatically download purchases" enabled).

One doesn't install an app for the purpose of installing it, but for using it. Thus finding it is part of the experience. Also this relates to the proceeding step of being back ob the website without further information that install was successful. Thus the user has to figure this out themselves.

Well, the step listed before "A new icon appears, not marked with a "New" bubble." is:

> Check your Home Screen and swipe to the last page.

While Apples implementation may have valid problems this post is just a clickbait exaggeration.

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