No “pull to refresh” when using the PWA?

I ended up force quitting the PWA to get by the “in maintenance mode” page.

I’m using an iPhone 16 Pro Max.

I had hoped that IC5 default theme would have a refresh icon somewhere on each page when using the PWA on iOS and that “pull to refresh” would be implemented.

Maybe the PWA can get some more attention before GA?

BTW, loving IC5 on this site.

Edited Monday at 01:59 PM2 days by KT Walrus

1 minute ago, KT Walrus said:

No “pull to refresh” when using the PWA?

I ended up force quitting the PWA to get by the “in maintenance mode” page.

I’m using an iPhone 16 Pro Max.

I had hoped that IC5 default theme would have a refresh icon somewhere on each page when using the PWA on iOS and that “pull to refresh” would be implemented.

Maybe the PWA can get some more attention before GA?

5.0.0 is locked in barring bug fixes. We have lots of thoughts about a lot of features (including mobile use) but we need to get 5.0.0 out first.

6 minutes ago, Matt said:

5.0.0 is locked in barring bug fixes. We have lots of thoughts about a lot of features (including mobile use) but we need to get 5.0.0 out first.

Note that this issue makes the PWA on iOS basically unusable for me.

For example, I submitted an edit to my first reply above and the edit changes didn’t show up, only the edited by line.

I then tried to reply with a screenshot of what I’m seeing but the editor got stuck when I pasted in the attachment. Apparently JS stopped processing some events maybe?

I ended up going to the index page and the entering this topic as a workaround to not being able to reload a page in the PWA.

Anyway, not having a dedicated refresh icon somewhere on the page is a big usability issue for me as I only browse forums on my iPhone and use PWAs for the sites I visit most.

Edited Monday at 02:20 PM2 days by KT Walrus

I split this topic off because I didn’t want to distract from the more general v5 topic.

I also wanted to say that it’s very strange to me that iOS doesn’t have pull to refresh as just a default thing. But, either way, as Matt said we do plan to improve on this.

Thanks for splitting.

The quick fix would be to simply put back/reload/forward ( ) buttons in the Navigation menu in the default theme.

This Navigation menu is quickly accessible is the navigation bar at the bottom of the page on mobile.

If you do this, add a go to top of page icon in the Navigation menu as well.

Edited Monday at 03:10 PM2 days by KT Walrus