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How Do I Use An iPhone Web App?
Using a web app with your iPhone or iPod Touch is easy – you just go to the web page for that app. The trick is knowing how to make the app appear on the main screen like other apps.
I’ll use a web app we just wrote about, Learn10, as the example. In the article we give the web app’s address as “http://m.learn10.com/”, but all you really need to type into Safari is the “m.learn10.com” part, like this:
Safari’s smart enough to assume the rest goes in there too, so now press “Go” to bring up the web page and see the words it’s showing today. Now we need to add the icon on our main iPhone or iPod Touch screen so instead of typing in the address you can open it like any other app. Press the plus sign at the bottom of the screen, as shown here:
It’s the same button you use to make a bookmark, except instead of selecting the “Add Bookmark” option that pops up, you’ll be selecting “Add To Home Screen”:
Now if you want, you can change the name that your web app has, in case the person who wrote it gave it a silly name. You can also see what icon it’s going to have but you can’t change the icon. Learn10 seems like a fine name to me so I’ll leave it the way it is. When you’re happy, press the “Add” button up in the top right hand corner:
And here we have it, the Learn10 web address showing up on the main screen just like all the other apps:
You can just open the app now like a regular app and, providing you’re connected to the web in some way, it will work perfectly.
Do you use any web apps? Do you know of any cool ones you’d tell others about?
Jeshyr
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Lots of iphone apps since original post. I use an app that allows me to access my home PC called files2phones. My iphone becomes a portable PC and any program I run at home I get on my iphone. Modern Technology!!!!! Yah.
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I found out how to do this by accident but wish I’d known about it sooner so for that reason, this is a great how-to.
To answer your question, my best web app has got to be the BBC iPlayer. Adding it to the home screen means that I can load the mobile version of the iPlayer with the press of one icon.
Very cool
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