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(Solved) How to save URL to homescreen? It doesn't keep the link! Grrr (lemmy.one)
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Hi all, so as per title, when I use browser app to make a pwa or 'add to homescreen' it works, but then opens the home page not the actual link I had created. From memory there was a hack where you would put your phone offline, airplane mode I think' and then it would save the link. But doesn't work anymore. Any1 have any solutions? Tx

Here is the link https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nwXAECO43ND2zjX9jzu5s3QiapGKlHKzs

Solved: see u/DerisionConsulting comments with steps. No need for tinyurl. Ty u all who helped. โค๏ธ

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[-] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You didn't answer any of my questions, but you did give me enough information to solve this for you.

Basically, Google is stupid and bad. They won't let you make a link to a specific thing that you open as a link on your homescreen.

The solve:

  1. You go to a url shorting site, like tinyurl, and make a custom link.
  2. you put your phone into airplane mode
  3. put the new url into firefox, and once the page doesn't load (no connection) you add it to your homescreen like normal. This re-direct will stop google from thinking that you opened the link as a homescreen shortcut.
  4. close all browser tabs
  5. turn airplane mode off (so you have connections again)
  6. complete
  7. Optional but recommended: Uninstall Brave
[-] user@lemmy.one 1 points 2 months ago

๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŽ‰ u did it, u beautiful human. Ty. So the missing step I probably forgot was to relaunch the link after air plane mode was on and after it says can't load add to homescreen and then it works. Yey. Ty ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ™ didn't need to make tinyurl.

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