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Most web browsers have an option ‘Add to Home Screen’. With this forum showing on the browser, use that option and it will give you an icon on your phone/tablet that will go directly to this forum when clicked. To you it will feel just like opening an app.
and If your on a Android device @Littyanddolly
just head to the forum on your phone / tablet click on the 3 dots in the top corner & select add to Home Screen from the drop down menus, that will place a “tile” on your device Home Screen
it will look like a app,
on clicking the tile it simply opens your web browser and your here
Sorry to hear you are finding it a bit inconvenient to access the forum. I tend to just keep a forum tab open on my phone/tablet browser, so it’s always there. But a ‘favourite’ added to the Home Screen would work just like an app.
Most web browsers have an option ‘Add to Home Screen’. With this forum showing on the browser, use that option and it will give you an icon on your phone/tablet that will go directly to this forum when clicked. To you it will feel just like opening an app.
Some mobile devices offer you the option of adding a home-screen icon with this button at the bottom of the menu (the three little lines top-left on smaller screens)