Add PhotoStructure to Your Home Screen

PhotoStructure works as a Progressive Web App (PWA). Add it to your home screen and it launches full-screen, just like a native app — no browser chrome, no address bar.

iPhone & iPad

  1. Open your PhotoStructure library in Safari. (Chrome and Firefox on iOS don’t support “Add to Home Screen.”)

  2. Tap the Share button (the square with an upward arrow, bottom center on iPhone, top right on iPad).

  1. Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen.
  1. Tap Add. PhotoStructure now appears on your home screen.

Android

  1. Open your PhotoStructure library in Chrome.

  2. Chrome may show an install banner automatically. If not, tap the three-dot menu (⋮) and select Add to Home screen (or Install app).

  1. Tap Add (or Install). PhotoStructure now appears on your home screen and in your app drawer.

Desktop (Chrome & Edge)

In the address bar, look for the install icon (a monitor with a down arrow). Click it and confirm. PhotoStructure opens in its own window, separate from your browser.

If the icon doesn’t appear, open the three-dot menu and look for “Save and share” > “Install page as app…” (Chrome) or “Apps” > “Install this site as an app” (Edge).

Troubleshooting

Reverse proxies and Cloudflare Tunnel

If “Add to Home Screen” doesn’t offer a standalone app experience, your reverse proxy may be blocking the web app manifest. Add crossorigin="use-credentials" to the manifest <link> tag in your proxy’s HTML, or verify that your proxy isn’t stripping the Content-Type: application/manifest+json header.

EU iOS restrictions

Apple removed standalone PWA support in the EU starting with iOS 17.4. Sites added to the home screen in EU countries open in a Safari tab instead. This is an Apple platform limitation, not a PhotoStructure issue.