ios web app meta tag not working

Within the <head> of my webpage I have the:

<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">

According to Apple developer, this is all that is needed for the app to launch in “standalone” mode. However, when clicking the bookmark that I had added to home it launches in the default safari rather than its own instance. What’s confusing me is that I copied these tags from another web page that I made last week that does work.

Am I doing anything wrong?

There is a manifest linked, it is a .json text file (“manifest.json”).

Thanks in advance for any answers and I am more than willing to provide any more of my html file if needed.

Below is the full <head> from my web page:


<head>
<title>XXXXXX</title>

<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">

<link rel="manifest" href="manifest.json">
<link rel="icon" href="icon.jpeg">

<meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no">

<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-title" content="XXXXXX">
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black-translucent">

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="icon.jpeg">

</head>


iPad, iOS 13

Posted on Jan 3, 2020 11:32 AM

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