A wave of a Apple Vision Pro reviews have highlighted a number of details. Here’s what you need to know before you buy Apple’s $3499 headset.
A wave of a Apple Vision Pro reviews have highlighted a number of details. Here’s what you need to know before you buy Apple’s $3499 headset.
The Apple Vision Pro release is happening soon, and pre-release reviews have started to surface. Opinions have been generally positive about Apple’s headset, with some areas that should be addressed in future releases.
Buried in the reviews are also small elements about the Apple Vision Pro experience that may not have been as expected by buyers. Here are some of the interesting smaller details about the Apple Vision Pro that you should know about.
No home screen web apps
It was discovered on January 23 that the visionOS wouldn’t natively support Progressive Web Apps and Web Push Notifications. This is a technology that can allow apps to be used within any modern browser, and in cases of the iPhone and iPad, can be saved to the home screen as an icon.
While it was theorized that it wouldn’t be available at launch, Brian Tong confirmed in his review that visionOS doesn’t allow users to save apps to the home screen at all.
This may be corrected in a future visionOS release, but for the moment, consumers cannot add those web apps to an accessible area, outside of Safari.
Alphabetical apps
Another spot by Brian Tong involving the home screen in visionOS concerns organization. Or more specifically, that users have to abide by a single system for the moment.
Each page of the visionOS home screen is capable of showing 13 apps on its grid, with additional apps appearing on new pages as the count increases.
This is somewhat similar to the experience of iOS and iPadOS, except that there’s no option to change the order of pages at all. Users cannot move or pin their favorite apps to the first page for easy access.
The problem is further compounded by the list being entirely in alphabetical order.
