Is History API broken on iOS? (Location bar doesn't update on pushState)

Question

Filing this under the either the I Can\'t Believe No One Noticed This Before or the I Must Be Missing Something categories:

It appears that if you do a simple

Answer 1

Here's what I found:

When the pushed location contains a hash symbol, the adressbar will be updated. So this will work:

window.history.pushState(data, title, 'a/new/url#');

But the window.location object will not be updated so you need to save the pushed url into a variable and use that instead of window.location if you need the pushed location.

Tested on Safari for Android.