IOS PWA always opens to the same date (the day it was added to home screen)

[radh21301]

I use Geopulse on my iPhone by using the "Add to Home Screen" feature in Safari. It works great, but I noticed one issue:

Every time I open the app from my home screen, it opens to the specific date that I originally added the app. For example, if I added it on Jan 18th, it always shows Jan 18th every time I open it, even days later.

I noticed that when I'm on the timeline, the URL contains specific dates (like ?start=01/18/2026&end=01/18/2026). It seems like the iPhone saves this exact URL with the dates included when creating the shortcut?

It would be great if the app could ignore those saved dates when launching or default to "Today" so the PWA stays current!

[tess1o]

Hello,

In your case the problem is that when you navigate to http://localhost:5555/app/timeline it automatically adds start + end dates for today - http://localhost:5555/app/timeline?start=01/19/2026&end=01/19/2026 and iOS saves start+end query parameters in PWA url. I didn't find a way how to update the URL, however there is a workaround that allows to achieve the behavior you want:

1. In Profile tab change Default Home Page to "Timeline":

2. Logout from GeoPulse on your phone. As a result you will be redirected to Home page (where Sign In button is available)
3. Create PWA from this page (Home page, you should still be not logged in). It will use url like this: http://localhost:5555
4. Open the PWA and login as usual.

As a result when you open PWA it will have URL http://localhost:5555 which will automatically redirect you to http://localhost:5555/app/timeline and it will automatically open today's timeline.

Thanks.

[radh21301]

That helped. Works as expected now. Thanks!