diff --git a/web/src/pwa/InstallHint.module.css b/web/src/pwa/InstallHint.module.css
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+.hint {
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: var(--space-3);
+}
+
+.icon {
+  color: var(--color-accent);
+}
+
+.message {
+  flex: 1;
+  margin: 0;
+  font-family: var(--font-body);
+  font-size: 15px;
+  font-weight: 600;
+  line-height: 1.35;
+}
diff --git a/web/src/pwa/InstallHint.test.tsx b/web/src/pwa/InstallHint.test.tsx
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+import { fireEvent, render, screen } from '@testing-library/react'
+import { afterEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
+import { DISMISSED_KEY, InstallHint } from './InstallHint.tsx'
+
+const IPHONE_SAFARI =
+  'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.5 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1'
+const IPAD_SAFARI =
+  'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.5 Safari/605.1.15'
+const MAC_SAFARI = IPAD_SAFARI
+const IPHONE_CHROME =
+  'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/138.0.7204.119 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1'
+const IPHONE_FIREFOX =
+  'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) FxiOS/141.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/605.1.15'
+const IPHONE_EDGE =
+  'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.0 EdgiOS/138.3351.83 Mobile/15E148 Safari/605.1.15'
+const IPHONE_OPERA =
+  'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1 OPT/5.4.0'
+const IPHONE_MQQBROWSER =
+  'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.0.3 MQQBrowser/11.3.5 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1'
+const ANDROID_CHROME =
+  'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 15; Pixel 9) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36'
+const DESKTOP_CHROME =
+  'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
+
+const copy = 'Tap Share, then Add to Home Screen to get notifications'
+
+type Device = {
+  userAgent: string
+  maxTouchPoints?: number
+  // display-mode: standalone
+  displayStandalone?: boolean
+  // navigator.standalone (Safari only; undefined elsewhere)
+  navigatorStandalone?: boolean
+}
+
+// mockDevice pretends to be a browser with the given user agent and
+// display mode; jsdom has no matchMedia, navigator.maxTouchPoints or
+// navigator.standalone.
+function mockDevice({ userAgent, maxTouchPoints = 0, displayStandalone = false, navigatorStandalone }: Device) {
+  vi.spyOn(navigator, 'userAgent', 'get').mockReturnValue(userAgent)
+  Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'maxTouchPoints', { configurable: true, value: maxTouchPoints })
+  Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'standalone', { configurable: true, value: navigatorStandalone })
+  vi.stubGlobal('matchMedia', (query: string) => {
+    if (query !== '(display-mode: standalone)') throw new Error(`unexpected media query ${query}`)
+    return { matches: displayStandalone, media: query } as MediaQueryList
+  })
+}
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  vi.restoreAllMocks()
+  vi.unstubAllGlobals()
+  Reflect.deleteProperty(navigator, 'maxTouchPoints')
+  Reflect.deleteProperty(navigator, 'standalone')
+  localStorage.clear()
+})
+
+describe('InstallHint', () => {
+  it('shows on iPhone Safari in a browser tab', () => {
+    mockDevice({ userAgent: IPHONE_SAFARI, maxTouchPoints: 5, navigatorStandalone: false })
+    render(<InstallHint />)
+    expect(screen.getByRole('note')).toHaveTextContent(copy)
+  })
+
+  it('shows on iPadOS Safari, which reports itself as a Mac with a touch screen', () => {
+    mockDevice({ userAgent: IPAD_SAFARI, maxTouchPoints: 5, navigatorStandalone: false })
+    render(<InstallHint />)
+    expect(screen.getByRole('note')).toHaveTextContent(copy)
+  })
+
+  it('is hidden when navigator.standalone is true', () => {
+    mockDevice({ userAgent: IPHONE_SAFARI, maxTouchPoints: 5, navigatorStandalone: true })
+    render(<InstallHint />)
+    expect(screen.queryByRole('note')).toBeNull()
+  })
+
+  it('is hidden when display-mode is standalone', () => {
+    mockDevice({ userAgent: IPHONE_SAFARI, maxTouchPoints: 5, displayStandalone: true })
+    render(<InstallHint />)
+    expect(screen.queryByRole('note')).toBeNull()
+  })
+
+  it.each([
+    ['Android Chrome', { userAgent: ANDROID_CHROME, maxTouchPoints: 5 }],
+    ['desktop Chrome', { userAgent: DESKTOP_CHROME }],
+    ['desktop Safari on a Mac', { userAgent: MAC_SAFARI }],
+    ['Chrome on iPhone', { userAgent: IPHONE_CHROME, maxTouchPoints: 5 }],
+    ['Firefox on iPhone', { userAgent: IPHONE_FIREFOX, maxTouchPoints: 5 }],
+    ['Edge on iPhone', { userAgent: IPHONE_EDGE, maxTouchPoints: 5 }],
+    ['Opera on iPhone', { userAgent: IPHONE_OPERA, maxTouchPoints: 5 }],
+    ['MQQBrowser on iPhone', { userAgent: IPHONE_MQQBROWSER, maxTouchPoints: 5 }],
+  ])('is hidden on %s', (_name, device: Device) => {
+    mockDevice(device)
+    render(<InstallHint />)
+    expect(screen.queryByRole('note')).toBeNull()
+  })
+
+  it('stays dismissed on this device', () => {
+    mockDevice({ userAgent: IPHONE_SAFARI, maxTouchPoints: 5, navigatorStandalone: false })
+    const first = render(<InstallHint />)
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'Dismiss' }))
+    expect(screen.queryByRole('note')).toBeNull()
+    expect(localStorage.getItem(DISMISSED_KEY)).toBe('1')
+
+    first.unmount()
+    render(<InstallHint />)
+    expect(screen.queryByRole('note')).toBeNull()
+  })
+
+  it('stays up and reports the error when the dismissal cannot be saved', () => {
+    mockDevice({ userAgent: IPHONE_SAFARI, maxTouchPoints: 5, navigatorStandalone: false })
+    const setItem = vi.spyOn(Storage.prototype, 'setItem').mockImplementation(() => {
+      throw new DOMException('quota exceeded', 'QuotaExceededError')
+    })
+
+    render(<InstallHint />)
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'Dismiss' }))
+    expect(screen.getByRole('note')).toHaveTextContent(copy)
+    expect(screen.getByRole('alert')).toHaveTextContent(
+      'Could not remember on this device that this hint was dismissed: QuotaExceededError: quota exceeded',
+    )
+
+    setItem.mockRestore()
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'Retry' }))
+    expect(screen.queryByRole('note')).toBeNull()
+    expect(screen.queryByRole('alert')).toBeNull()
+    expect(localStorage.getItem(DISMISSED_KEY)).toBe('1')
+  })
+
+  it('shows and reports the error when storage cannot be read', () => {
+    mockDevice({ userAgent: IPHONE_SAFARI, maxTouchPoints: 5, navigatorStandalone: false })
+    const getItem = vi.spyOn(Storage.prototype, 'getItem').mockImplementation(() => {
+      throw new DOMException('storage blocked', 'SecurityError')
+    })
+
+    render(<InstallHint />)
+    expect(screen.getByRole('note')).toHaveTextContent(copy)
+    expect(screen.getByRole('alert')).toHaveTextContent(
+      'Could not check whether this hint was dismissed on this device: SecurityError: storage blocked',
+    )
+
+    getItem.mockRestore()
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'Retry' }))
+    expect(screen.getByRole('note')).toHaveTextContent(copy)
+    expect(screen.queryByRole('alert')).toBeNull()
+  })
+})
diff --git a/web/src/pwa/InstallHint.tsx b/web/src/pwa/InstallHint.tsx
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+import { useState } from 'react'
+import { Share, X } from 'lucide-react'
+import { Card } from '../ui/Card.tsx'
+import { ErrorBanner } from '../ui/ErrorBanner.tsx'
+import { Icon } from '../ui/Icon.tsx'
+import { IconButton } from '../ui/IconButton.tsx'
+import styles from './InstallHint.module.css'
+
+// DISMISSED_KEY is the localStorage key remembering, on this device, that the
+// household dismissed the hint.
+export const DISMISSED_KEY = 'mealquest.installHint.dismissed'
+
+// Safari's user agent ends "(KHTML, like Gecko) Version/<v> Mobile/<build>
+// Safari/<v>" (iPadOS leaves out Mobile/). Every other iOS browser and in-app
+// web view adds its own token (CriOS, FxiOS, EdgiOS, OPiOS, MQQBrowser, GSA,
+// ...) or drops Version/ or Safari/, so only this exact tail is Safari.
+const SAFARI_TAIL = /\(KHTML, like Gecko\) Version\/[\d.]+ (?:Mobile\/\w+ )?Safari\/[\d.]+$/
+
+// isIosSafari reports whether the page is open in Safari on iPhone, iPod or
+// iPad. iPadOS 13+ asks for the desktop site and reports itself as a Mac, so
+// a "Macintosh" with a touch screen is an iPad.
+export function isIosSafari(nav: Pick<Navigator, 'userAgent' | 'maxTouchPoints'>): boolean {
+  const ua = nav.userAgent
+  const ios = /iPhone|iPod|iPad/.test(ua) || (/Macintosh/.test(ua) && nav.maxTouchPoints > 1)
+  return ios && SAFARI_TAIL.test(ua)
+}
+
+// isStandalone reports whether the app is running from the Home Screen.
+// Safari sets navigator.standalone; other browsers answer the display-mode
+// media query.
+export function isStandalone(): boolean {
+  const legacy = (navigator as Navigator & { standalone?: boolean }).standalone
+  return legacy === true || window.matchMedia('(display-mode: standalone)').matches
+}
+
+// HintState is whether the household dismissed the hint on this device, and
+// the storage failure, if any, that stopped us reading or saving that.
+type HintState = {
+  dismissed: boolean
+  failure: { action: 'read' | 'write'; message: string } | null
+}
+
+// Storage can be unavailable (blocked by the browser or privacy settings), in
+// which case using it throws. The failure is reported, never treated as a
+// remembered dismissal.
+function readDismissed(): HintState {
+  try {
+    return { dismissed: window.localStorage.getItem(DISMISSED_KEY) === '1', failure: null }
+  } catch (err) {
+    return { dismissed: false, failure: { action: 'read', message: String(err) } }
+  }
+}
+
+function writeDismissed(): HintState {
+  try {
+    window.localStorage.setItem(DISMISSED_KEY, '1')
+    return { dismissed: true, failure: null }
+  } catch (err) {
+    return { dismissed: false, failure: { action: 'write', message: String(err) } }
+  }
+}
+
+const failureText = {
+  read: 'Could not check whether this hint was dismissed on this device',
+  write: 'Could not remember on this device that this hint was dismissed',
+}
+
+// InstallHint tells iOS and iPadOS Safari users how to install the app, which
+// iOS requires before it delivers Web Push. It shows only in a Safari browser
+// tab, never once installed, and stays dismissed on this device. If storage
+// fails, the hint stays up with an error saying so. Used by onboarding step 3
+// and the Notifications screen.
+export function InstallHint() {
+  const [eligible] = useState(() => isIosSafari(navigator) && !isStandalone())
+  const [state, setState] = useState<HintState>(() =>
+    eligible ? readDismissed() : { dismissed: false, failure: null },
+  )
+  if (!eligible || state.dismissed) return null
+
+  const { failure } = state
+  return (
+    <>
+      <Card tone="muted" role="note" className={styles.hint}>
+        <Icon icon={Share} className={styles.icon} />
+        <p className={styles.message}>Tap Share, then Add to Home Screen to get notifications</p>
+        <IconButton label="Dismiss" onClick={() => setState(writeDismissed())}>
+          <Icon icon={X} />
+        </IconButton>
+      </Card>
+      {failure && (
+        <ErrorBanner onRetry={() => setState(failure.action === 'read' ? readDismissed() : writeDismissed())}>
+          {failureText[failure.action]}: {failure.message}
+        </ErrorBanner>
+      )}
+    </>
+  )
+}