diff --git a/src/app/(counter)/layout.tsx b/src/app/(counter)/layout.tsx
index 8cfdf28..ef50b2f 100644
--- a/src/app/(counter)/layout.tsx
+++ b/src/app/(counter)/layout.tsx
@@ -4,10 +4,13 @@ import { CounterShell } from "./shell";
 export const metadata: Metadata = {
   title: "Counter · WFDASH",
   manifest: "/manifest-counter.json",
-  // Standalone display for the installed PWA. iOS reads this from
-  // <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable"> via the same value in
-  // the root layout — duplicating it here so each route segment's
-  // metadata is self-contained.
+  // Standalone display comes from `apple-mobile-web-app-capable`,
+  // which the root layout declares via `metadata.other` and this
+  // segment inherits (it defines no `other` of its own, so nothing
+  // overrides it). The previous comment here claimed the root already
+  // supplied that tag — it didn't: the root only set
+  // `appleWebApp.capable`, which Next 16 renders under the
+  // standardised name that iOS ignores.
   applicationName: "WFDASH Counter",
 };
 
diff --git a/src/app/(mobile)/m/layout.tsx b/src/app/(mobile)/m/layout.tsx
index 1fd67b3..a19a7d7 100644
--- a/src/app/(mobile)/m/layout.tsx
+++ b/src/app/(mobile)/m/layout.tsx
@@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ export const metadata: Metadata = {
     statusBarStyle: "default",
     title: "Boss",
   },
+  other: {
+    // Next 16 emits only the standardised `mobile-web-app-capable` for
+    // `appleWebApp.capable`, and iOS ignores that name — so without
+    // this the home-screen icon opens as a Safari bookmark rather than
+    // a standalone app. See the same note in `(rep)/rep/layout.tsx`.
+    "apple-mobile-web-app-capable": "yes",
+  },
 };
 
 export const viewport: Viewport = {
diff --git a/src/app/(rep)/rep/layout.tsx b/src/app/(rep)/rep/layout.tsx
index 8fd124d..a6e5c93 100644
--- a/src/app/(rep)/rep/layout.tsx
+++ b/src/app/(rep)/rep/layout.tsx
@@ -24,6 +24,18 @@ export const metadata: Metadata = {
     statusBarStyle: "default",
     title: "Visits",
   },
+  other: {
+    // `appleWebApp.capable: true` emits the standardised
+    // `mobile-web-app-capable` in Next 16 — and **iOS only honours the
+    // apple-prefixed name**. Without this tag the home-screen icon is
+    // a plain Safari bookmark, not a standalone app: tapping it just
+    // foregrounds Safari on whatever tab was already open, which looks
+    // exactly like "it opened the main app instead".
+    //
+    // Verified on the running app: only `mobile-web-app-capable` was
+    // present until this was added.
+    "apple-mobile-web-app-capable": "yes",
+  },
 };
 
 export const viewport: Viewport = {
diff --git a/src/app/layout.tsx b/src/app/layout.tsx
index 21aa0f0..fe59c85 100644
--- a/src/app/layout.tsx
+++ b/src/app/layout.tsx
@@ -130,6 +130,23 @@ export const metadata: Metadata = {
     statusBarStyle: "default",
     title: "WFDASH",
   },
+  other: {
+    // Next 16 renders `appleWebApp.capable: true` as the standardised
+    // `<meta name="mobile-web-app-capable">` and no longer emits the
+    // apple-prefixed name — which is the only one iOS actually reads.
+    //
+    // Without this, an "Add to Home Screen" icon is a plain Safari
+    // bookmark rather than a standalone app: tapping it foregrounds
+    // Safari on whatever tab was already open, which presents as "it
+    // opened the main app instead of mine". Verified missing on /m and
+    // /rep against the running app before this was added.
+    //
+    // Declared at the root so every surface inherits it (/, /m,
+    // /counter, /rep). The PWA layouts that define their own `other`
+    // repeat it, because a child's `other` replaces the parent's
+    // rather than merging into it.
+    "apple-mobile-web-app-capable": "yes",
+  },
   openGraph: {
     type: "website",
     title: "WFDASH - Business CRM",