iOS Safari Web Share API Level 2

Hello, I’m looking for a way to use the native iOS share sheet to share an image from a Web App running in latest Safari on iOS 13.4.1 Does anybody know a Safari (iOS) timeline for such Web Share Level 2 support (including image sharing)? I’d be happy to get any information about this. Thanks in advance! Philipp

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It looks like they are starting to implement this into Webkit and roll it out in the recent beta versions of Safari 14.

I was able to get Web Share API Level 2 functionality (sharing an image from a web page to a friend through the Messages app) working correctly in Safari Tech Preview on desktop (with some bugs). Safari on iOS 14 as of beta4 has a flag in the settings to enable it, but it looks to only be partially working on there, as a share looks to get initiated correctly with a file attached, but no promise seems to get returned to let you know if it was a success or failure.

Hopefully they're still working on the implementation and it will be fully-functioning for the public release of Safari 14.
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it will be available in Safari 15. Already available as a TP (Technical Preview)

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It's behind a flag in iOS 14 and works in iOS 15.

I implemented in a small web app: https://heicdrop.kasperkamperman.com/ You can find the needed JS code in: https://heicdrop.kasperkamperman.com/app.js

I hope it helps.

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