Justin Duino / How-To Geek
Apple’s Safari web browser is missing some advanced features compared to Chrome, Firefox, and other browsers. Thankfully, one major shortcoming is being fixed: push notifications.
Apple confirmed last year that it was working on standard web push notification support for Safari on all platforms, including Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Before that point, Safari was only compatible with Apple’s proprietary push technology, which few websites ever supported. The new feature works with standard web push notifications — the same ones sites already use to send alerts through Chrome, Firefox, or Microsoft Edge. It already arrived in macOS Ventura, and now Apple is testing iOS 16.4 beta and iPadOS 16.4 beta, which finally brings the functionality to iPhones and iPads.
Web notifications are useful for web applications, but they are incredibly unpopular everywhere else. Mozilla said in 2019 that requests to allow push notifications from sites were rejected more than 97% of the time by Firefox users. That’s likely why Apple is implementing the feature differently than most mobile browsers on Android devices — sites cannot request to send notifications unless they are bookmarked to the home screen. Presumably,…
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