PWA on IOS and offline storage

Question

We looking to develop an \"App\" which would have the ability to record the details of a damaged car for assessors. The idea is that a small number of assessors would have compa

Answer 1

Firstly, iOS restricts third party web browsers (or any app that displays web pages) to using its own engine - installing Chrome on an iPad will not enable access to any web APIs that iOS/Safari doesn't already support.

So in particular:

• File System API is not available on iOS, even if you're using Chrome
• Cache API has a storage limitation per website of 50MB
• IndexedDB has a storage limitation per website of 500MB or half the device's free space (whichever is smaller)
• PWAs and their cached data are automatically wiped from devices if not used for a few weeks
• the "navigator.storage" API for requiring durable data is not support on iOS, even if you're using Chrome or Firefox.