Hiding Safari User Interface Components on iPhone

Question

In an attempt to hide the Safari UI components for an web-app bookmarked as a Homescreen Icon. I am using this meta tag

<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />

as specified on iPhone Dev Center but the address bar and toolbar are still there when launched from the home screen icon. What do I need to do different? Does anyone have an example?

Answer 1

Is it being launched from the home screen? The documentation on the linked page does not mention but I found this @ Configuring Web Applications:

For example, you can specify an icon for your web application used to represent it when added to the Home screen, as described in “Specifying a Webpage Icon for Web Clip.” You can also minimize the Safari on iPhone user interface, as described in “Changing the Status Bar Appearance” and “Hiding Safari User Interface Components,” when your web application is launched from the Home screen. These are all optional settings that when added to your web content are ignored by other platforms

Answer 2

That should indeed behave as expected, I have used it in the past without any difficulties.

Answer 3

Do you have the latest firmware? If not, that's your problem.

Answer 4

Have you tried adding...

<meta name="apple-touch-fullscreen" content="yes" />

Answer 5

I know this is pretty old, but I came across this while searching for a solution. I was able to fix this by also adding:

window.top.scrollTo(0, 1);

to the body's onload method. Hope it helps anyone else coming across this.

Answer 6

window.top.scrollTo(0, 1);

Works on iPhone, but not in iPad. I have been successful hiding the browser components on iPad (so presumably everywhere) by using

<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />

and launching from a home-screen link. I am also using

<meta name="viewport" 
        content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />

I have not tried seeing if the browser components are still hidden if I leave out the viewport properties.