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Copper Contributor

Mar 12, 2020

[Request Feature] Ability to change PWA name on Apps Manager page.

At this point we do want to make any website behave like an application. It only has to be added as an application with the possibility of setting a name from the beginning. This is useful when you h...

cjbarth

Brass Contributor

Feb 27, 2026

We are in 2026 and this is still an issue. I experience this with all the aforementioned apps and others. If you aren't going to allow renaming, then append the profile name like you already append `(PWA)`. This can't violate anything because I know that `(PWA)` doesn't come with the manifest.

Sadly, my work-around is to create a shortcut of the PWA by going to `shell:AppsFolder` and dragging that to the `%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs` folder to create a shortcut and renaming it there. However, as pointed out before, this only solves the launching problem, not the running problem.

I understand if you want to honor the developer, so always prepend the manifest name; but always let me "rename" by having whatever suffix I want.