How to Add a Website Shortcut to Phone? The home screen of your smartphone or tablet isn’t just for apps. Whatever platform you use, you can pin your favorite websites to your home screen so you can access them quickly.
Add a Website Shortcut on a Smartphone or Tablet
For example, Chrome for Android opens these websites in their own windows without a browser interface, while Windows 8 and Windows Mobile offer live tile updates on some websites.
How to Add a Website Shortcut to Android Phone
For Android, launch Chrome and open the website or webpage you want to pin to your home screen. Tap the menu button and tap Add to home screen. You will be able to enter a name for the shortcut, then Chrome will add it to your home screen.
The icon will appear on your home screen like any other app shortcut or widget, so you can drag it and put it wherever you want. Chrome for Android loads the website as a “web app” when you tap the icon, so it gets its own entry into the app switcher and doesn interfere with any browser interface.
Other popular Android browsers also offer this feature. For example, Firefox for Android can do this if you tap the menu button, tap the Page option and tap Add to Home Screen.
Add Website Shortcut for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
On Apple’s iOS, launch the Safari browser and navigate to the website or webpage you want to add to your home screen. Tap the Share button in the browser’s toolbar, which is a rectangle pointing upwards. In the bar at the top of the screen on an iPad and in the bar at the bottom of the screen on an iPhone or iPod Touch. Tap the Add to Home Screen icon in the Share menu.
You will be prompted to name the shortcut before tapping the Add button. The shortcut can be dragged and placed anywhere, including in app folders – just like a regular app icon. (To create app folders on iOS, tap and drag an app’s icon to another app’s icon and hold it there for a while.) When you tap the icon, it loads the website into a normal tab within the Safari browser app.
Other browsers for iOS, such as Chrome, do not offer this feature. Due to limitations in Apple’s iOS, only Apple’s own Safari browser is allowed to do this.
Windows 8, 8.1, RT
Windows 8, 8.1 and RT devices also offer a way to pin websites to your Start screen. This is most useful on tablets, not desktops, where you don’t want to see the Start screen. On Windows desktop, you can pin website shortcuts to your taskbar for easier access.
First, open the modern Internet Explorer browser – this is probably what you use on the tablet, as it offers the most optimized experience. Navigate to the website you want to pin, pull up the app bar – for example, by right-clicking or swiping up from the bottom of your screen – and tap the star icon. Tap the thumbtack icon, enter a name for the shortcut and click Pin to Launch. The website will appear as a tile on your Start screen.
Tap the tile, the website opens in Internet Explorer. Some websites offer live tile support – Windows uses an associated  RSS feed  to display the latest headlines and updates from the site if you pin it to your start screen. Most websites are not configured to support this feature. If they do, you will see updates after you pin them to your home screen.
Add a Website Shortcut to Windows Mobile Phone
The process is similar on Windows Mobile. First, open the website you want to pin in Internet Explorer. Tap the More (…) button and in the menu that appears, tap the Pin to Start button. Windows Mobile 8.1 supports live tile updates from websites that have configured the feature the same way Windows 8 does.The process is similar on Windows Mobile. First, open the website you want to pin in Internet Explorer. Tap the More (…) button and in the menu that appears, tap the Pin to Start button. Windows Mobile 8.1 supports live tile updates from websites that have configured the feature the same way Windows 8 does.
If you have another smartphone or tablet, it probably has this feature too. Open its browser and look for an option like “Add to home screen” or “Pin to home screen” in its menu.
To remove a website shortcut from your device’s home screen, long-press the shortcut and remove it as you would any other app icon.
