Add the site to your home screen

You can keep the site on your phone's home screen, with an icon of its own, and open it from there in a window of its own without the browser's address bar, as you would open an app. It is the same site, drawn by the same pages, so it needs a connection as it does in a browser.

The icon is the site's own: Croquet Scores and Gateball Scores each have one, so you can tell them apart. The try website cannot be put on the home screen. It is a safe place to learn the site, and what is entered there may be removed at any time.

On an iPhone

An iPhone does not let the site offer a button for this, so it is done from the browser, in four steps.

1. Open the site in Safari.
2. Press Share, the square with an arrow pointing up, at the bottom of the screen.
3. Scroll down the list that opens and press Add to Home Screen.
4. Change the name if you like, then press Add.

Other browsers on an iPhone, such as Chrome, can do this too from iOS 16.4 if they offer it. Look for the same Share button in the browser and follow the same steps. Before iOS 16.4 only Safari can.

On an iPad

The steps are the same, but the Share button is at the top of the screen, beside the address bar, and not at the bottom.

On other phones

Where your browser says the site can be installed, the site shows an Install the site button at the foot of every page. Press it and answer what the browser asks. If there is no such button, open the browser's menu, the three dots in Chrome, and look for Install app or Add to Home screen.

If there is no option

A browser does not offer this when you are reading in a private window. Open the site in an ordinary window and try again. A browser that is out of date may not offer it at all, and updating it is the way to have it.

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