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Add FerryHawk to your iPhone home screen

Five taps in Safari and FerryHawk sits on your home screen like any other app — full screen, no address bar, one tap from anywhere.

Installing changes how you open FerryHawk, nothing else. Your alerts still arrive by text either way — you don’t need to install anything to get notified when a sailing opens up.

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    Open ferryhawk.ca in Safari

    This only works in Safari. If you’re reading this in Chrome or Firefox, copy the address over to Safari first.

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    Tap the Share button

    It’s the square with an arrow pointing out of it, in the row of icons at the bottom of the screen.

    Safari's bottom toolbar. The Share button is the middle icon: a square with an arrow pointing up out of it. AA ferryhawk.ca
    The Share button sits between the arrows and the bookmarks icon.
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    Scroll down to “Add to Home Screen”

    The share menu is a long list. Keep scrolling past the bookmark options until you see it.

    The Safari share menu, with the "Add to Home Screen" row highlighted partway down the list. FerryHawk ferryhawk.ca Add Bookmark Add to Favourites Markup Add to Home Screen
    Rows above and below it will differ depending on your iOS version — look for the name, not the position.
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    Check that “Open as Web App” is on

    On newer iPhones there’s a toggle here. Leave it switched on — that’s what makes FerryHawk open full screen instead of reopening Safari.

    The Add to Home Screen dialog, showing the name field and the "Open as Web App" toggle switched on, with the Add button top right. Cancel Add to Home Screen Add FerryHawk ferryhawk.ca Open as Web App
    Older iPhones won’t show this toggle. That’s fine — skip to the next step.
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    Tap Add

    The FerryHawk icon lands on your home screen. Open it from there and it runs full screen, with your last route and phone number already filled in.

Not seeing “Add to Home Screen”?

Two things account for almost every case. Either you’re not in Safari — Chrome and Firefox on iOS don’t offer it — or you haven’t scrolled far enough down the share menu, which is longer than it looks.

Still stuck? Tap the feedback button on the main page and tell us what you’re seeing.