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Add to home screen

Adding your family page to your phone’s home screen makes it work like a real app — one-tap launch, no browser address bar, push-notification support, and an app icon you can move around.

It’s free, takes 10 seconds, and you don’t need to install anything from an app store.

Must be Safari on iPhone — not Chrome. (See note at the bottom.)

  1. Open your family page in Safari.
  2. Tap the Share button (square with an arrow pointing up) at the bottom of Safari.
  3. Scroll down in the share sheet and tap Add to Home Screen.
Screenshot: Safari share menu with “Add to Home Screen” highlighted
  1. The name will be “TS Family” — leave it as is, then tap Add in the top right. (If you also coach for the club, you will have a second app called “TS Coach”. They are two separate apps with two separate icons — the cyan one is your family page, the dark one is the coach tool.)
  2. Look at your home screen for the new icon. Tap it.
  3. The page opens standalone — no browser address bar, no Safari tabs. This is the PWA (Progressive Web App) mode.

You’re set. Open the icon any time to come back. Push notifications work from this installed version (see Enable phone push).

Those apps open links in their own built-in browser, and it has no Add to Home Screen. If the option isn’t in the Share menu, that’s where you are. Tap ··· (or the Safari icon in the corner) and choose Open in Safari, then start again from step 1. Your family page shows a note at the top when it can tell this has happened.

Why does iPhone need Safari and not Chrome?

This is an Apple rule. Every browser on iOS — Chrome, Firefox, Edge — is forced to use Safari’s rendering engine under the hood. But only Safari can produce a real Add-to-Home-Screen PWA on iOS. Chrome iOS’s “Add to Home Screen” creates a shortcut that opens Chrome instead of giving you a real app.

Once installed via Safari, you can use any browser for normal day-to-day browsing. The home-screen icon is independent of which browser you use elsewhere.