“alert()” and “confirm()” not working with “apple-mobile-web-app-capable”

Question

Under iOS (currently 7.0), it looks like alert() and confirm() are not working when our web app is pinned to the home screen (aka using the meta tag

Answer 1

I had this happening for me with the following code:

const confirmation = window.confirm(message || 'Are you sure?');

The confirm would show up on PC (Edge browser), but not on iPhone (Safari browser)

I changed the code to the following (removed the window.):

const confirmation = confirm(message || 'Are you sure?');

And suddenly it was working again.

I am guessing that Apple got its own implementation of confirm that does not need the window.