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Safari has always hampered PWAs, and probably for the reason that they want you to use the appstore instead ($$$).

It came out in the Epic trial that 90% of App Store revenue comes from games. Those aren’t going to be web apps anyway for monetization reasons.

If PWAs are so bad on iOS and great on Android, why do companies bother with writing Android apps, web apps for computers and iOS apps instead of just telling Android users to use the web apps?

Is Android dramatically better for PWAs?

It’s a bit better but I’ve still not found any PWAs that I’d want to use over a native Android app, if only because they’re near-universally rough, quirky, and generally unpleasant in ways that modern Jetpack Compose apps aren’t.

There are fewer walls, yes.

Push notifications from PWAs are another area that is unnecessarily limited on iOS. They only work if the user has added your PWA to their home screen and Safari doesn't support the install prompts available in Chrome and similar.

So your users will need to go out of their way to add the PWA to their home screen and then they can receive silent push notifications because Apple says sound and vibrations are only allowed for native apps.

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