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How to Add Web "Apps" to Your iOS Device

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Add Web "Apps" To Your iOS Device

How to Add Web "Apps" to Your iOS Device

This guide will show you how to use Safari's "advanced" bookmarks: putting the bookmarks on your home screen as apps.

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Note: If you cannot fully see the image, please press it to make it fullscreen. Tap it again to go back to the original size.

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Tap SAFARI.

Tap SAFARI.

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Tap the book icon. Note: Press this image.

Tap the book icon. Note: Press this image.

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I am choosing a site that I use a lot: DISboards.

I am choosing a site that I use a lot: DISboards.

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Press the arrow icon. Note: Press this image.

Press the arrow icon. Note: Press this image.

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Now, press ADD TO HOME SCREEN.

Now, press ADD TO HOME SCREEN.

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Well known apps tend to have their own icon logo, such as this site. You can also change the name of the "app", a.k.a. bookmark. Then, press ADD in the right upper corner.

Well known apps tend to have their own icon logo, such as this site. You can also change the name of the "app", a.k.a. bookmark. Then, press ADD in the right upper corner.

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Tada! Now, I can immediately go to DISboards any time I want and bypass four extra steps.

Tada! Now, I can immediately go to DISboards any time I want and bypass four extra steps.

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You can also edit your own icon logo for lesser known sites. All you do is cruise to the part of the page that you want, optionally zoom in, then follow the previously mentioned steps.

You can also edit your own icon logo for lesser known sites. All you do is cruise to the part of the page that you want, optionally zoom in, then follow the previously mentioned steps.

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Voila, my own app icon AND my own app name for a "bookmark".

Voila, my own app icon AND my own app name for a "bookmark".

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You just learned how to add your favorite and most used sites as apps onto your own home screen.

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Cerulean Apple

No problem, Lynn.😊

(author) 11 months ago

Lynn Kirkman

Thanks anyways :).

Lynn Kirkman 11 months ago

Cerulean Apple

I don't have any experience with non-Safari browsers, do I couldn't help you there, Lynn. Sorry. You'd have to use Safari to put bookmarks on your home screen, as far as I know.

(author) 11 months ago

Lynn Kirkman

Hey, does this work for web browser apps, like Mercury? I don't have Safari...

Lynn Kirkman 11 months ago

Cerulean Apple

Sorry.😁 I have to make that way do I can highlight the box, and Snapguide doesn't show the entire picture for some reason.

(author) 11 months ago

Yo Mama

Just try and not make us click the pic every time to prove your point ...thanks a ton for the information ..awesomely helpful :D

Yo Mama 11 months ago

Cerulean Apple

No problem, Jenni and Brenda!

(author) 11 months ago

Brenda Hernandez

Yey ! Thank You ! This is awesome!!

Brenda Hernandez 11 months ago

Jenni

Wow! Ya learn something every day! Lol! I just tried this and it works great. Thanks for the guide.

Jenni 11 months ago

Cerulean Apple

Aww, thanks, Shannon! I'm always trying to make guides that are truly useful.

(author) 11 months ago

shannon b

Probably the most useful iOS guide yet...

shannon b 11 months ago

Cerulean Apple

It is!

(author) 11 months ago

G. C.

Awesome!!!

G. C. 11 months ago

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Cerulean Apple

No problem! Glad to help!

(author) 11 months ago

A R

Awesome...this is the part I always wondered how to do. Thanks!!

A R 11 months ago

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