I don't know about Android phones but, with a forum, you can create a post/announcement to explain to your users how they can make use of push notifications, such as letting them know that iOS devices do not support them unless they add your site to their home screens, if they don't already know this.Thanks for your reply.
What about installing a website app on Android phones? I noticed that the prompt to install the app for the website will only drop down from the top of the phone if you click on the admin link for phpBB. Is there a setting that can be changed to prompt the installation of the PWA app on the index page instead of the admin sign-in link?
Lots of sites offer push notification alerts now. Some of them...the annoying one's...hit you with an intrusive blocker-alert asking you to enable them. We will never do that. But as an iOS device user, I have never ever encountered any site that tried to tell to me that I need to add their site to my home screen and enable push alerts. We will never do that either. Like many iOS users, when I've encountered a site where I see they offer push notifications, but I can't enable them on my device because it's not supported, a quick google search always solved that. And like I said above, you can simply post about it in your forum.
Also, this feature is a desktop-first feature. Mobile device support is only possible based on how devices and/or their OS system go about implementing it, and it's not standardized...yet.
Statistics: Posted by MattF — Sat Jul 20, 2024 3:59 pm