Save website to iPhone home screen Chrome

If you visit a website regularly on your iphone, you might want to create a Home screen shortcut to it. This guide will show you how.

If you regularly check out a website on your iPhone, you might want to make it easier to access it.

Instead of opening your browser each time, you can add a website to the home screen on your iPhone. This creates an app-like icon on your screen that you can tap to open the site directly.

When you add a website to the home screen on iPhone, it behaves like an app. You can drag the icon to different locations on your screen or add it to a folder if you want.

Unsure how to add a website to your iPhone home screen? Follow our steps below.

You can quickly add a website to your iPhone home screen using Safari.

To be clear, this only works using the Safari browser. You’ll need to use Safari to create it and, when you tap the shortcut, the website will open again in Safari.

To add a website to the home screen on your iPhone:

1. Open Safari and navigate to the website you want to add.
   
2. While you’re on the website, tap the bottom of the screen to display the navigation toolbar.
3. Tap the Share icon in the middle of the navigation bar.
   
4. The share menu will appear.
   
5. Tap it with your finger and move it up toward the top of your phone.
6. Tap on Add to Home Screen from the menu.
   
7. You can type in a name for the website shortcut that helps you remember what it’s for. After that, tap Add in the top-right corner.
   
8. The website shortcut (and name you gave it) will now appear like an app icon on the iPhone’s home screen.
9. Tap the website icon to launch the site in Safari.
   

How to Manage Website Shortcuts on iPhone Home Screen

Websites on the iPhone home screen work like any other app you install. You can move or delete the shortcuts or add them to a folder for better home screen organization.

How to Move a Website Shortcut on an iPhone Home Screen

For example, if you want to move the website icon, long-press it until apps start to jiggle.

You can then drag it to a different location on the home screen.

How to Delete a Website Shortcut on an iPhone Home Screen

If you want to delete a website shortcut on your iPhone’s home screen, tap and hold the icon until the pop-up menu appears, then Delete Bookmark from the menu.

How to Add a Website Shortcut to a Folder on an iPhone Home Screen

You can also put the website shortcuts into a folder with other apps on the home screen. To do this, tap and hold the icon, swipe it on top of another icon, and add it to the folder.

For example, maybe you want to put all website shortcuts in the same folder.

Adding Websites to iPhone Home Screen

If you want to quickly access your favorite websites, adding a website to your iPhone home screen is a good way to do it.

If you create a shortcut to a site, it may nag you to download the official app. YouTube, for example, will want you to install its official app each time you launch the web shortcut.

For more iPhone tips and tricks, check out merging your contacts or how to turn the flashlight on or off. You might also be interested in using Silent Mode on iPhone or how to block No Caller ID on iPhone.

All of us have a few favorite websites that we visit regularly and want to keep favorites at a “one-touch” or “one-click” distance if possible. The fastest way would probably be to ask assistants (Google Assistant, Siri, Alexa) to navigate to that site but that’s not always working as planned. You can bookmark them but that’s also too many steps for some. The swiftest way is to add a Chrome bookmark to Home Screen or desktop. And we made sure to explain how to do it below.

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How to create website shortcuts on Home Screen

1. How to add Chrome bookmark on your Android

Adding a Chrome bookmark to your Android’s Home Screen is quite simple. Once you open the webpage you want to add to the Home Screen, it’s easy from there.

Here’s how to add a Chrome bookmark to your Android Home Screen:

1. Open the webpage you want to add in Chrome.
2. Tap on the 3-dots menu in the top right corner and select Add to Home screen.
3. Rename the bookmark if you please and tap Add.
4. Tap Add once more and it should appear on your Home Screen.
   

From there, you can move it whenever you want. You can also tap & hold to open the pop-up menu and Remove it.

2. How to create a Chrome bookmark Shortcut on your iPhone

Of course, it’s easy to do a lot of things with Chrome on Android. As it is to do them with Safari on iOS. But, adding a Chrome bookmark on iPhone’s Home Screen is not exactly intuitive. You need to use Shortcuts and enter the URL manually but, once you set it up, you won’t need to worry about it anymore.

So, without further ado, here’s how to create a Shortcut for a Chrome bookmark on your iPhone:

1. On your iPhone, open Shortcuts from Home Screen or App Library.
2. Tap on the + icon and tap Add Action.
3. Select Apps instead of Categories.
4. Tap Chrome and select Open URLs in Chrome.
5. Tap on the URL section and copy-paste or type the full URL of the bookmark.
   
6. Optionally, you can tap on the icon at the top right corner to choose its color and object or symbol.
   
7. Tap on the blue configuration icon at the top right corner, next to the X icon.
8. Tap Add to Home Screen.
9. Name the newly-created shortcut and tap Add.
   

That’s it. You can move it wherever you like and it will automatically take you to the webpage in Chrome you wanted to bookmark.

3. Add Chrome shortcuts to Desktop on your PC

You can make Chrome bookmarks into desktop shortcuts in a couple of clicks. The procedure is almost the same as on Android, where you have an option to rename the bookmark before adding it.

Here’s how to save Chrome bookmarks as desktop shortcuts on your PC:

1. Open the webpage in Chrome.
2. Click on the 3-dots menu at the top right corner and select More tools > Create shortcut…
   
3. Rename the shortcut (optional, but advised if the bookmark is too long) and choose whether you want it to open as a tab or force it to open in a separate window every time you run it. If you want the separate window every time, check the Open as windows box.
4. Click Add.
   

You can drag the shortcut to Taskbar and pin it so it gets even more accessible.

That’s it. Thank you for reading and don’t forget to share your questions and suggestions in the comments section below. We look forward to hearing from you.