How to remove/disable "Open in Web App" Safari Banner

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How to remove/disable "Open in Web App" Safari Banner

After creating a web app out of a website and adding it to the dock in MacOS Sonoma, every time a new web page is opened in safari for those websites, a banner appears allowing you to open the page in the web app version. This banner has to be manually exited out every time, and reappears every time.

This is so frustrating as I can't find any setting to disable these suggestions. When I want to use the web app, I will use the web app, and when I want to use the website version, I want to use the website version. There should simply be an option in the share button to allow you to open in web app once one has been.

Is there any way to keep the web app but stop these banners from appearing?

MacBook Pro (M3, 2023)

Posted on Nov 21, 2023 9:39 AM

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Nov 23, 2023 10:08 AM in response to AntlerBond

To those who view this in the future: I found a solution.

You can find the files for the web apps in Users/ -> [username]/ -> Applications/. All of these files are the apps. They can be moved or deleted, or you can even create duplicates in multiple locations such as on your desktop so it isn't restricted to the dock.

An easy fix to the banner problem is by creating a new folder in Applications/, call it anything you want, and place all the files for the web apps in that folder. The web app in the dock will still work, but safari doesn't recognize that there is an app to open a website in so the banner no longer appears. Any new applications created can just be moved into the folder, and if you ever do actually want the banner, then you can remove it from the folder you created and replace it in Applications/.

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Nov 21, 2023 10:09 AM in response to AntlerBond

AntlerBond wrote:

After creating a web app out of a website and adding it to the dock in MacOS Sonoma, every time a new web page is opened in safari for those websites, a banner appears allowing you to open the page in the web app version. This banner has to be manually exited out every time, and reappears every time.

This is so frustrating as I can't find any setting to disable these suggestions. When I want to use the web app, I will use the web app, and when I want to use the website version, I want to use the website version. There should simply be an option in the share button to allow you to open in web app once one has been.

Is there any way to keep the web app but stop these banners from appearing?

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/1f88a22d-6224-4653-8f5e-24cb6d3e50ad

Never tried web apps myself...

see if there is anything here ref:

Use Safari web apps on Mac

you can always Call Customer Support (800) MY–APPLE (800–692–7753)

or on line https://getsupport.apple.com/

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