Add to home screen

Adding your family page to your phone’s home screen makes it work like a real app — one-tap launch, no browser address bar, push-notification support, and an app icon you can move around.

It’s free, takes 10 seconds, and you don’t need to install anything from an app store.

iPhone (Safari)

Must be Safari on iPhone — not Chrome. (See note at the bottom.)

1. Open your family page in Safari.
2. Tap the Share button (square with an arrow pointing up) at the bottom of Safari.
3. Scroll down in the share sheet and tap Add to Home Screen.

Screenshot: Safari share menu with “Add to Home Screen” highlighted

4. The name will be something like “Smith Family · Team Summit” — leave it or rename, then tap Add in the top right.
5. Look at your home screen for the new icon. Tap it.
6. The page opens standalone — no browser address bar, no Safari tabs. This is the PWA (Progressive Web App) mode.

You’re set. Open the icon any time to come back. Push notifications work from this installed version (see Enable phone push).

Android (Chrome)

1. Open your family page in Chrome.
2. Tap the ⋮ menu (three dots) in the top right.
3. Tap Install app or Add to Home screen (the exact wording varies by Chrome version).

Screenshot: Chrome Android install banner

4. Confirm the name and tap Install / Add.
5. Look on your home screen or app drawer for the new icon. Tap it.
6. The page opens standalone, just like a native app.

Push notifications work in Chrome on Android without even needing the install — but installing gives you the nicer icon and standalone view.

Desktop

There’s no “install” on desktop in the same sense, but you can bookmark the page for one-click access.

Chrome / Edge:

1. Open your family page.
2. Look for the install icon (a little computer-with-down-arrow icon) at the right end of the URL bar.

Screenshot: Chrome desktop install icon

3. Click it → Install.
4. The page becomes a standalone window with its own taskbar entry.

Safari (Mac):

1. Bookmark the page (⌘D) or pin it as a tab (File → Pin Tab).
2. Safari Mac doesn’t have full PWA install — the page works in a tab.

Firefox:

1. Bookmark the page. Firefox doesn’t support PWA install for this site type.

For desktop push notifications, see Enable phone push — it works in any modern desktop browser without installing.

Why does iPhone need Safari and not Chrome?

This is an Apple rule. Every browser on iOS — Chrome, Firefox, Edge — is forced to use Safari’s rendering engine under the hood. But only Safari can produce a real Add-to-Home-Screen PWA on iOS. Chrome iOS’s “Add to Home Screen” creates a shortcut that opens Chrome instead of giving you a real app.

Once installed via Safari, you can use any browser for normal day-to-day browsing. The home-screen icon is independent of which browser you use elsewhere.