Instead of scrolling through your Safari or Google browser on your smartphone, you can create a shortcut to have access to your favorite website immediately.

1. Visit a website First of all, open the Chrome browser on your Android device and visit the website that you’d like to add to your home screen.

This makes web apps the ideal choice for most people. There are many ways you can create web apps and add them to your home screen.

iOS 26 gives you two distinct ways to add websites to your iPhone's Home screen – as web apps or traditional bookmarks. They might look similar ...

Overview In Safari mobile, you can add any website to your home screen as a shortcut. This adds an icon to your home screen that opens up whatever webpage you choose.

Internet Explorer 9 famously lets you add Web favorites to your taskbar, but Windows has always had the option of adding them to the desktop.