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Web browser compatibility

This page gives an overview of Unity’s Web platform support for desktop and mobile browsers.

Web browser compatibility for desktop

Unity’s Web platform support for desktop browsers differs depending on the browser. It supports browsers providing the following conditions are true:

  • The browser is WebGLA JavaScript API that renders 2D and 3D graphics in a web browser. The Unity Web build option allows Unity to publish content as JavaScript programs which use HTML5 technologies and the WebGL rendering API to run Unity content in a web browser. More info
    See in Glossary
    2 capable.
  • The browser is HTML 5 standards-compliant.
  • The browser is 64-bit and supports WebAssembly.

The Unity Web platform supports some compressed texture formatsA file format for handling textures during real-time rendering by 3D graphics hardware, such as a graphics card or mobile device. More info
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. For information on the compressed texture formats that Unity WebGL supports, refer to Recommended, default, and supported texture compression formats, by platform.

Web platform supports the following desktop browsers:

Desktop Browser Desktop Platforms
Google Chrome Windows, macOS, Linux
Mozilla Firefox Windows, macOS, Linux
Apple Safari macOS
Microsoft Edge Windows, macOS, Linux

Notes:

  • The Web platform also supports the latest version of the Chromium-based Edge browser.
  • Apple Safari doesn’t support WebGL 2 in versions before Safari 15.
  • Apple Safari doesn’t support IndexedDB for content running in an iFrame.
  • On Linux, you might have to install Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) codec support via a package manager (for example, the GStreamer package).

Web browser compatibility for mobile

The Unity Web platform supports some mobile browsers. To use a Web application on a mobile device, you have a few options:

  • Run the application in your mobile browser.

  • Use WebView to embed the application into native apps.

  • Use a Progressive Web AppA software application that’s delivered through the web. It uses certain browser features to create a user experience on par with a native application. More info
    See in Glossary
    (PWA) template.

Unity’s Web platform supports the following mobile browsers:

Mobile Browser Mobile Platform
iOS Safari 15 and newer iOS
Chrome 58 and newer Android

Web introduction
Technical limitations