Apple Wants To Kill PWAs

Danny Moerkerke
ITNEXT
Published in
4 min readFeb 8, 2024

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It’s now more clear than ever

Photo by Ali Abdul Rahman on Unsplash

Update: Apple responded to the situation and it’s not good news. Read the details in my follow-up article

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse, Apple decided to disable PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) in the beta release of iOS 17.4. At first I thought this was a bug, something not uncommon for beta releases, but then I saw this tweet that show a popup…

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