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Web apps harken back to the original days of the iPhone, when there was no App Store.
Instead, you could pin a web page to your home screen and it worked just like an app.
A web app is much smaller than an app that you download from the App Store, for instance.
Notably,Xbox Cloud Gamingrelies on a web app to function on the iPhone.
The software update will be available in early March, so we expect it any day now.
Webkit is Apples own online window engine, different from Chromium browsers likeGoogleChrome andMicrosoftEdge, and other browsing engines.
Its unclear how this might affect performance, but it seems like a reasonable compromise for now.
