Install Ascend on your device

1. Open ascendinvoice.com in Safari. Chrome, Edge and Firefox on iPad cannot install web apps — they all reuse WebKit but only Safari exposes Add to Home Screen.
2. Tap the Share button in the toolbar (top-right in landscape, bottom in Stage Manager).
3. Scroll the share sheet and tap Add to Home Screen.
4. Confirm the name "Ascend" and tap Add. The icon will appear on your Home Screen and in App Library.
5. Launch from the Home Screen icon — Ascend opens fullscreen with no Safari chrome.

Same steps as iPad. The Share button sits at the bottom of Safari.

1. Open the site in Chrome.
2. Tap the ⋮ menu → Add to Home screen (or Install app).
3. Confirm the prompt. The maskable icon adapts to your launcher's shape.

Look for the install icon (⊕ or a small monitor) at the right of the address bar, or open the browser menu and choose Install Ascend….

• Find the Ascend icon on your Home Screen / desktop.
• Launch it — the app should open without the browser address bar or tab strip.
• Return here from the installed app — this page should read Already installed at the top.

• No "Add to Home Screen" in the share sheet? You're not in Safari. Long-press the URL → Open in Safari, then retry.
• Private Browsing hides Add to Home Screen. Switch to a normal Safari tab.
• Old iPadOS (< 16.4) installs the icon but cannot use the manifest. Update iPadOS for the full app experience.
• Icon looks generic / blurry? Delete the Home Screen icon, hard-refresh Safari (close the tab, reopen), and Add to Home Screen again so iOS re-fetches the 180×180 apple-touch-icon.
• Opens in Safari instead of fullscreen? The icon was created before our manifest was wired up. Delete and re-add it.
• After an update, the app feels stale? Force quit the installed app from the App Switcher and relaunch — iOS revalidates the cached HTML.

• apple-touch-icon.png at 180×180 (used for Home Screen icon on all iPhones and iPads).
• apple-mobile-web-app-capable + status-bar-style meta tags so the installed app launches fullscreen with a dark status bar.
• Web app manifest with 192/512 standard and maskable icons for Android and Chromium desktop.
• Theme color #0B0B0D matching the app's dark background — no flash on launch.

Note: iOS no longer requires custom apple-touch-startup-image splash PNGs — recent Safari generates the splash from the manifest's background_color and icon automatically.