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Asked: 2026-06-15T10:44:46+00:00

When user chooses add to homescreen option from mobile Safari she sees a dialog

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When user chooses “add to homescreen” option from mobile Safari she sees a dialog where she can enter title for that shortcut. The text field is already filled with some default title.

The question is: there this title is taken from?

In my code I have following header for one of my pages (all pages in single html file):

<div data-role="header" class="toolbar">
    <h1 id="someHeader" class="exampleHeader">Example Header</h1>
    <a href="#" onclick="loadOtherStuff()">Other</a>
</div>

I’m changing this title dynamically by using

var someDifferentTitle = ...
$('.exampleHeader').html(someDifferentTitle).trigger('create');

The title updates just fine but when I tap “add to homescreen” the system still uses original “Example Header” hint!

How to fix this? Any ideas?

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1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    Answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11569043/275754

    Short answer:

    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-title" content="Short name">
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