As said, it displays icons but not all the apps at once or in a row. It shows one or two app icons and the rest are stored in the system tray. At times, you might want to display all the icons so ...
For that, right-click on the app and select the Unpin from taskbar option. Related: How to remove Chat icon from Taskbar on Windows 11. Windows 11’s Start Menu has a button called All apps.
As a user, you don’t see any of this: the link isn’t printed on the webpage, and all you see is its initial splash screen; under the hood, the icon you tap on the home screen loads a local web app for ...