Starting today, you can visit the Facebook Gaming website to add a Progressive Web App (PWA) that acts as a shortcut to the service on your iPhone or iPad.
When Apple tweaked its guidelines last September to allow for cloud gaming clients on iOS, it said games offered in a streaming service had to be individually downloaded from the App Store.
That's a requirement both Microsoft and Facebook said was not congruent with how every other platform treats cloud gaming services.
"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 today'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 process of adding the web app is complicated enough that Facebook includes a short how-to when you first visit its Gaming website on Safari.
The reason for that is the App Store guidelines prohibit developers from using their applications to direct individuals to websites that feature alternative payment systems to those offered by Apple, and you pay for the in-game purchases offered in Facebook Gaming titles through Facebook's Pay platform.
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