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I’m a little confused. Most people are talking about PWAs as though adding a website shortcut to your Home Screen is a PWA. When I search for what a PWA is on Google, it says they can be placed in the app stores. So are they in the app stores or do users have to do the shortcut thing?

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Only Google and Microsoft app stores. Apple does not allow them.

There are some tools which allow you to package up a pwa into an app that is essentially a thin shell around a webview. Whether or not Apple accepts such an app into their App Store is another variable. For example:

https://docs.pwabuilder.com/#/builder/app-store

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