How to add Head for Points to your phone home screen, just like an app

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• Charlie says:

  4 Aug4 August 09:49

  There is a similar feature on Safari for Mac. ‘Create Web App’ which will create a standalone Headforpoints app. Although I have not done this, I have for other websites (mainly travel) that have the benefit of maintaining passwords etc., even if you clear the Safari browser cache.

  • Cicero says:

    4 Aug4 August 11:30

    Didn’t know that, thanks.

• Elt164 says:

  4 Aug4 August 10:38

  I.d like to do this but options on my iPad are:
  Copy, add to reading list, add bookmark, find on page, markup, print, search on Google
  I.m not very techy
  Can anyone help ? Thanks

  • Gordon says:

    4 Aug4 August 11:01

    Just use option, add to Home Screen

    • Elt164 says:

      4 Aug4 August 11:08

      Thanks but that.s not an option I seem to have.
      My options are only as listed in my post
      Any Help appreciated

      • HertsSam says:

        4 Aug4 August 11:13

        In the list presented, there are further options if you move the list further up.
        I just tried on this page and the ‘Add to Home Screen’ option is listed.

        • Elt164 says:

          5 Aug5 August 08:48

          Thanks but I def only have options I listed.I have IOS 15.8.2 on iPad.
          Cannot get higher.
          Any suggestions?

      • Gordon says:

        4 Aug4 August 11:25

        Just scroll down!

        • Elt164 says:

          5 Aug5 August 08:49

          Thanks but def no other options than I listed

• Nigel says:

  4 Aug4 August 10:49

  Well done Rob. Another brilliant tip after the Amex one on how to avoid the Pay With Points screen! You are worth your weight in carbon credits 🤣

• Lady London says:

  4 Aug4 August 21:04

  Thank you for sharing the secret of why so many apps are not really much of an actual app.

  So many so-called “apps” require an app update practically every time you load them – or at least once every week.

  These include, amongst my apps : train apps, supermarket apps, a few distance selling apps owned by retailers, for example. And quite a few others where it looks like the required “app update” is just downloading a newer set of timetable data, availbility data for accommodation, this week’s loyalty offers, etc.

  I’ve always suspected that these apps requiring almost constant updating aren’t apps at all. They aren’t dynamically accessing data they’re just downloading fresh sets that are as good as hard coded in the so-called “app” and the only intelligence in the “app” is making you identify yourself so they know which hard-coded dataset revision to connect you to (eg the discounted one, or the rack rate one). Then a basket/checkout module (which may be directed to an outsourced basket/payment handler. So the “app” is basically a data depository with no intelligent functions.

  Contrast that with something like Amazon where it’s clear the website, let alone the app, is doing a variety of functions as soon as you start typing.

  I take my hat off to you Rob for kindly spilling the beans on how easy it is to make anything look like an app.

  More current actual computer specialists you are welcome to correct me.

  • ChrisBCN says:

    4 Aug4 August 21:40

    The first sort of apps we had on our smartphones were native apps. This means you had to develop them separately to any website, meaning you are increasing your costs and headcount. Then 8 or 9 years ago progressive web apps were created to solve this cost problem. This means you design once for your website, and the app simply points to pages on your website – you don’t need to have an iOS and an Android team of developers any more. Many of the modern apps we use are just ‘wrappers’ for website content.

• Louise says:

  11 Aug11 August 08:35

  I keep trying to follow the WhatsApp channel but I have a German phone number and that seems to be preventing me from following,

  Is there, or is there likely to be, a solution?

  • Rob says:

    11 Aug11 August 09:35

    I am guessing that channels are not yet available in Germany? They are still rolling out.

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