This guide explains adding a website to your iPhone home screen for instant access. There must be several websites that you like to access multiple times in a day. Normally, you would bookmark a site on the specific browser you use.
You may find it boring to launch the browser, access the bookmarks section, and scroll to the saved webpage to launch it. Instead of that manual effort, how about landing on your favorite site with a single finger tap?
On iOS you can create a shortcut of any website on your iPhone home screen. Like launching any app installed on your iPhone, tap the website shortcut to open it instantly on the iPhone’s default browser.
Let us begin with Apple’s native browser app for its ecosystem. Follow these steps to add a site you are browsing on Safari to your iPhone home screen.
Before adding a site shortcut to the home screen, you may set a custom name for it. This is useful if you create a shortcut for any specific page on a website. Having a name for the shortcut makes it easier to access it among other shortcuts and apps on the home screen.
If you don’t need a website/page shortcut, you can delete it like any other iOS app.
You can use these steps to delete any site/page shortcut you added to your iPhone.
While hardcore Apple users may stick to the Safari browser, loyal Chrome browser users may wonder if there is a way to add a page or site shortcut from Chrome on the iPhone home screen.
Yes. It is possible to create a site shortcut using Chrome browser on iOS.
If you are one of those privacy-focused users, I’m sure you may be using the Firefox browser on your iPhone. Like Safari and Chrome, Firefox users can add a website shortcut to the iPhone home screen for instant access.
Edge is another popular Chromium-based browser. To add a site to the iPhone home screen using Edge browser follow these steps.
Note: Even though you can create as many website shortcuts on your iPhone home screen from different browsers, tapping these shortcuts will launch the page on the iPhone’s default browser.
When you add a site or its page to the home screen, the fav icon of the site becomes the shortcut icon.
Adding multiple pages from the same website to your home screen may confuse you when you want to access and launch a specific webpage. They will all be saved on the home screen with the same fav icon.
You can use the iOS Shortcuts app to create a webpage with a customized app icon.
Now you know how to create a shortcut for any website on popular web browsers and save them on your iPhone home screen for faster access. Let me know in the comments if the tricks shared in this guide were informative.