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Apps for Phones and Tablets: Add to Home Screen

Add Clinical Resources to Your Mobile Device's Home Screen!

Not all online clinical resources have an official mobile app to download. As an alternative, you can create a convenient shortcut to an online clinical resource of your choice and add it to your home screen.

To add a shortcut to your home screen of the clinical resources provided by Midwestern University:

  1. Go to the A-Z List of recommended clinical resources in your mobile web browser of choice (e.g. Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox)
  2. Follow the appropriate instructions below to create a shortcut on your mobile device type/web browser app of choice

Jump to instructions for:

Adding a Web Page as a Home Screen Shortcut on Android

  1. Open the menu by clicking on the three vertical dots in the upper right hand corner
  2. Locate and click on the option, "Add to Home screen"
  3. Click "Create shortcut" and rename the shortcut to your preference
  4. Finish by clicking "Add to home screen"

Screenshots of mobile browser with arrow pointing to three dots, then arrow pointing to Add to Home Screen option, then arrow pointing to Create Shortcut, then arrow pointing to Add to Home Screen

Adding a Web Page as a Home Screen Shortcut on iOS/iPadOS - Safari

  1. Locate and click on the "Share" icon Share icon; box with an arrow sticking out
  2. From the pop-up menu, scroll down and find the option, "Add to Home screen"
  3. Rename the shortcut to your preference and then click "Add"

Screenshots of Safari screen with arrow pointing to share icon, then arrow pointing to Add to Home screen, then shortcut name typed in, then shortcut on homescreen

Adding a Web Page as a Home Screen Shortcut on iOS/iPadOS - Google Chrome

  1. Locate and click on the "Share" icon share icon
  2. From the pop-up menu, scroll down and find the option, "Add to Home screen"
  3. Rename the shortcut to your preference and then click "Add"

Scrrenshots of Chrome with arrow pointing to share icon, then arrow pointing to add to homescreen, then shortcut name typed in, then shortcut icon on homescreen

Adding a Web Page as a Home Screen Shortcut on iOS/iPadOS - Firefox

  1. Open the menu by clicking on the horizontal bars at the bottom right corner of the screen
  2. In the menu, find and click on "Share" 
  3. From the pop-up menu, scroll down and find the option, "Add to Home screen"
  4. Rename the shortcut to your preference and then click "Add"

Screenshots of Firefox with arrow pointing to menu bars, then arrow pointing to Share, then arrow pointing to add to homescreen, then shortcut name typed in

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