How to make website shortcut on iphone

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The home screen on your smartphone or tablet isn’t just a place where your apps live. You can also add shortcuts to websites. Here's how to create an "app" for any website on your device, allowing you to access shortcuts directly from your home screen.

iPhone or iPad

1. Open Safari. Other browsers, such as Chrome, won't work for this.
   
2. Navigate to the website you want to save to your home screen by entering the URL of the website you want to create a shortcut to. Make sure you visit the exact page you want to open through the shortcut. Tap “Go.”
3. Tap the Share button on the bottom of the page. It looks like a square with an arrow pointing out of the top.
4. In the list of options that appear, scroll down until you see Add to Home Screen. Tap this. The Add to Home Screen dialog box will appear.
   
5. Choose a name for the website shortcut on your home screen. You'll see the link so you can confirm it, as well as the site's favicon that will appear as the "app" icon on your home screen. Click Add when you're done. Safari will close automatically and you will be taken to where the icon is located on your iPhone’s or iPad's home screen.
6. Now just tap the new "app" or shortcut on your home screen, and it will open the website in its own navigation window, independent of what you have open in Safari.

Note: If you ever decide you want to remove the website shortcut, you can delete it just like you would any other app on your phone.

Android

1. Open Chrome.
   
2. Navigate to the website or web page you want to pin to your home screen.
3. Tap the menu icon (3 dots in upper right-hand corner) and tap Add to homescreen.
4. Choose a name for the website shortcut, then Chrome will add it to your home screen.

We all have some frequently visited websites stored in our favorites or tabs that have been open since the dawn of time. But don’t those extra steps of opening the browser, looking for the website, and then accessing it get cumbersome at times? Well, now you can add a website to your iPhone home screen like apps.

This helps save battery, and it gives you the option to bookmark an essential piece of content to refer back to later. I have two neat little tricks for you. So let’s get started with this time-saving hack.

• How to create a website shortcut on your iPhone Home Screen
• Add a website icon to the iPhone Home Screen using the Shortcuts

How to create a website shortcut on your iPhone Home Screen

1. Launch Safari on your iOS device.
2. Go to the website you want to save to your home screen.
3. Tap the Share icon.
4. Select Add to Home Screen.
5. On this page, give a desired name to the website and tap Add to make a Home Screen shortcut.
   

And that’s it! It’ll create a Home screen shortcut, which you can tap to visit the website anytime. However, this trick only works with Safari; what if you’re a Google Chrome lover? Try out the next hack

Add a website icon to the iPhone Home Screen using the Shortcuts

1. Launch Shortcuts and tap + at the top right.
2. Tap + Add Action and search for Safari/Chrome at the top bar.
3. From the whole list of Chrome/Safari shortcuts, select Open URLs in Chrome.
   
4. Here, tap URL and type in or paste the website link.
5. Tap the three-dotted icons to name the shortcut & add an icon.
6. Next, select Add to Home Screen and tap Add again to confirm the action.
   

Again, all you have to do is tap the newly made icon to visit the website.

To delete website shortcuts from Home Screen, Simply touch and hold on to the shortcut icon. Now tap Delete Bookmark/Shortcut.

If you’re using the shortcut method, remember to delete it from the Shortcuts app as well. Tap Select, choose, and Delete.

You may also like to read:

• How to Add or Delete Favorites in Safari in iPhone
• How to Delete Apps on iPhone or iPad
• 3 Easiest Ways to Share Your Shortcuts on iPhone and iPad
• iPhone screen not rotating? How to fix it

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