Facebook has turn into the newest firm to supply a cloud gaming service on iOS, solely as soon as once more you will not entry it by way of the App Store. Starting immediately, you’ll be able to go to the Facebook Gaming website so as to add a Progressive Web App (PWA) that acts as a shortcut to the service in your iPhone or iPad. To achieve this, go to the platform’s web site and faucet the “Add to Home Screen” possibility from the Safari share sheet.

It’s not a sublime resolution, but it surely’s the identical one employed by Amazon and Microsoft. When Apple tweaked its tips final September to permit for cloud gaming shoppers on iOS, it mentioned video games supplied in a streaming service needed to be individually downloaded from the App Store. That’s a requirement each Microsoft and Facebook mentioned was not congruent with how each different platform treats cloud gaming providers.

“We’ve come to the same conclusion as others: web apps are the only option for streaming cloud games on iOS at the moment,” Vivek Sharma, Facebook’s vice-president of gaming, told The Verge of immediately’s launch. “As many have pointed out, Apple’s policy to ‘allow’ cloud games on the App Store doesn’t allow for much at all. Apple’s requirement for each cloud game to have its own page, go through review and appear in search listings defeats the purpose of cloud gaming.”

The technique of including the net app is difficult sufficient that Facebook features a brief how-to if you first go to its Gaming web site on Safari. You additionally should know to navigate to the corporate’s web site within the first place. The motive for that’s the App Store tips prohibit builders from utilizing their functions to direct people to web sites that characteristic different fee programs to these supplied by Apple, and also you pay for the in-game purchases supplied in Facebook Gaming titles by way of Facebook’s Pay platform.