It would appear that Apple have changed the way homescreen/standalone web apps work in iOS 6. According to various blog posts (example) these apps now get their own dedicated s
Just set the request you pass to the webview to NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringLocalCacheData
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url]; [request setCachePolicy:NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringLocalCacheData]; [self.webView loadRequest:request];