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  description: "Legacy Apple extension that makes a Home Screen web app open without Safari controls when set to yes. Prefer a web app manifest for a modern PWA."
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Meta tags

# apple-mobile-web-app-capable

Legacy Apple extension that makes a Home Screen web app open without Safari controls when set to yes. Prefer a web app manifest for a modern PWA.

## Code examples

Good example

```
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
```

The only value that enables this legacy standalone mode.

Avoid this example

```
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="true">
```

Apple documents yes, not a Boolean string, as the enabling value.

Avoid this example

```
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="">
```

An empty value does not enable standalone mode. Omit the legacy tag instead.

## Recommendations

- 01 Use a Manifest First Set display in a web app manifest. Modern PWA guidance treats this meta element as a deprecated fallback.
- 02 Test Standalone Navigation Safari controls are absent in standalone mode, so your app must provide any navigation people need.

## Related documentation

- [Apple Developer: MetaTags](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariHTMLRef/Articles/MetaTags.html)
- [web.dev: Web App Manifest](https://web.dev/learn/pwa/web-app-manifest/)

## Related meta tags

### [apple-itunes-app](https://zhead.dev/meta/apple-itunes-app)

name

Adds Apple’s Smart App Banner in Safari. The banner opens the installed app or its App Store page.

```
<meta name="apple-itunes-app" content="app-id=123456789">
```

The required parameter with a numeric App Store ID.

### [apple-mobile-web-app-capable](https://zhead.dev/meta/apple-mobile-web-app-capable)

name

Legacy Apple extension that makes a Home Screen web app open without Safari controls when set to yes. Prefer a web app manifest for a modern PWA.

```
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
```

The only value that enables this legacy standalone mode.

### [apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style](https://zhead.dev/meta/apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style)

name

Legacy Apple extension that sets the iOS status bar style for a Home Screen web app. It only works when apple-mobile-web-app-capable enables standalone mode.

```
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="default">
```

Uses the normal status bar. This is also the default value.

### [apple-mobile-web-app-title](https://zhead.dev/meta/apple-mobile-web-app-title)

name

Legacy Apple extension that sets the title shown for a Home Screen web app. Without it, iOS uses the page title.

```
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-title" content="MyApp">
```

A short Home Screen title.

### [mobile-web-app-capable](https://zhead.dev/meta/mobile-web-app-capable)

name

Deprecated pre-manifest hint once used by Chrome for Android to launch a Home Screen site without browser controls. Use a web app manifest today.

```
<meta name="mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
```

The historical value that requested standalone app mode.