Unlike Safari on the Mac, regular websites accessed in Safari on iOS still can’t send push notifications. Just note, this will only apply to apps added to your home screen. Of course, they’ll have to ask permission to do this just like any app, and you can go to Settings > Notifications to adjust the way the web app notifies you.

With iOS 16.4, web apps added to your home screen can use the HTML5 standard Web Push API to send push notifications, complete with badge icons. Items: Folding hand fan, hair pick, flute, maracasįor a long time now, one of the biggest problems with “web apps”–websites you add to your home screen to act like apps–was the lack of ability to send push notifications. The Home app is rebuilt from the ground up to be even more efficient and reliable.Animals: Donkey, moose, goose, wing, jellyfish.Gesture: Rightwards and leftwards pushing hand with 5 skin tones each.Who doesn’t love emojis? In iOS 16.4 Apple is adding 21 new emojis (31 if you include skin tone variations). The current version of iOS 16 is iOS 16.3.1, released in February 2023 with security updates, a handful of bug fixes related to iCloud setting a Siri requests. Note that all your other Apple things (especially Home Hubs like Apple TV or HomePod) will need to be updated as well.

The prompt to update will be at the top of the screen.

That means current iPhones will be able to install iOS 15.4, which also comes. Once you update to iOS 16.4, you can open the Home app, tap the (…) button in the upper right corner, and then select Home Settings. Apple has released an update to its iOS 15 software, following a beta process that began in late January.

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