Install on your phone
Put HailConnect on your home screen
HailConnect installs straight from the browser — no app store, no download waiting. Once it's on your home screen it opens full-screen with its own hail-storm icon, just like a regular app. Takes about a minute.
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Open HailConnect in Safari
Use Safari for this — the Add to Home Screen option lives in Safari's Share menu. If you opened this link from Mail or Messages, tap it so it opens in Safari first.
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Tap the Share button
It's the square with an arrow pointing up, in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen (top on iPad).
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Scroll down and tap "Add to Home Screen"
Scroll the share sheet until you see the row with a plus-in-square icon labelled Add to Home Screen, then tap it.
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Tap "Add" in the top corner
You can rename it here if you like — HailConnect is already filled in. Tap Add and the hail-storm icon lands on your home screen.
After you install it
- Tap the HailConnect icon and it opens full-screen — no browser bars, and your spot in the app is remembered.
- New features appear the next time you open it — there's nothing to update, it always shows the latest version.
- On iPhone, home-screen apps don't badge or push-notify the way App Store apps do — daily hail summaries arrive inside the app via the bell at the top.
- To remove it, press and hold the icon, then choose Delete / Remove.