I just implemented iOS9 deep linking in my app and it was working just fine. Then I figured out that there is a "Open in Safari" button on the top right corner of the screen (opposite to the "Back to [App]" button).
I clicked it and now my links will always open directly in Safari instead of going into my app.
Can anybody else reproduce that? Is there a way to undo that? I searched inside Settings but can't find any appropriate options.
I found it. Just long-press the link and you will get the option to open it in your app again!
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Problem 1: So I am using the Firebase dynamiclink and works fine. My problem is I want to hide the textButton on my status bar (DONOT WANT TO HIDE THE WHOLE STATUS BAR, the buttons) whenever the app opens on dynamic links. See photo.
Problem 2: I accidentally tapped the goo.gl above and now the app is not opening on the dynamic link. It goes to safari instead. how to bring it back to normal?
Problem 1: I do not believe this is possible. It would be great if so, but as far as I know it is enforced by iOS.
Problem 2: paste the URL into the Notes app, long-press on it, and select Open in [App]
Before anyone marks this question as a duplicate please read the extra section at the bottom that sites differences between this question and other similar questions out there
I'm utilizing Universal Links for my deep linking needs. Two example use cases are:
1.) Safari/Chrome Browser on iPhone with my app installed: When click on a link on my web site on their iPhone I'm deep linking them into my app if installed on their phone.
2.) With my app installed, running my app but using an in-app-UIWebView. My app also has an in-app UIWebView, when you tap a button it deep links them somewhere in the application.
After you deep link into the app, there are two buttons in the navigation bar. A Back button (top left) and a Forward button (top right).
My problem
If the user presses the forward button (top right) it forwards them to my web page and then will forever break my deep linking so that any time in the future when the user clicks on that link to deep link it always goes to my web page instead of deep linking into the app (which was the original intention). How can I prevent this? My concern here is that my app has close buttons in the top right corner and if the user is trying to hit hte close button they could accidentally hit the forward button and forever break deep linking. I've tried clearing my browsers caches, I've tried deleting and re-installing my app. But nothing will "fix" deep linking after it's been permanently disabled by the forward button. The only way I can get it working again is by doing a complete device reset and Erasing all Content and Settings.
Here is an image of the back and forward buttons after deep linking into the application.
Difference between my question and similar questions on SO:
Similar SO question But here they are saying that the user can long-press on the "universal link" and and action sheet pops up asking you to "open in ". I've tried this for above case 1.) and my app isn't showing up in the options. See attached screenshot below. And this doesn't work at all for above case 2.). How do you get a Universal link to work with an iOS WebViewController? Do I have to use the SafariViewController? I don't want to use SafariViewController in my app for this case because I don't want to have that top navigation bar that SafariViewController has.
You're absolutely right: the forward button is horrible UI/UX. It's one of the big flaws with Universal Links identified in this blog post. There is no way to disable the forward button, and once it's triggered, you're screwed.
The easiest way to re-enable Universal Linking behavior after it is turned off is to long-press on the link. But that doesn't work if your link is being disabled by the system based on some other criteria (more details below). Your best bet at getting a clean shot is to paste the Universal Link URL into the stock Notes app and try long-pressing it from there.
To answer a few of your other questions:
Universal Links do work within UIWebView (per Apple's docs). A SafariViewController is not necessary.
Universal Links are disabled at the system level in certain situations. There's a list here, but this the main one that comes to mind as potentially applicable in this situation:
Universal Links will not work with a user driven element click on the same domain. Example: if there is a Universal Link on google.com pointing to a different Universal Link on google.com, it will not open the app.
Your second example image is from Chrome. Universal Links should work (conditionally) in Chrome, but is the link pointing at the same domain as the page you've already loaded? If so, that's why you aren't seeing the Open in [app] option.
You cannot disable the button to open the website, but you can create a path in the other direction: Use a smart banner on the website, and when users tap "Open" (or the localized equivalent), they will be taken back to your app, and this will also reset the default to opening universal links in your app instead of Safari.
While testing universal links on my iOS 9 app, I accidentally tapped "mywebsite.com >" (top right corner). This made the app navigate to the website again. Now I can't seem to make universal linking work again. Seems like iOS has remembered my preference that I would like to see links opened in Safari as opposed to my app.
Has anyone run into this? Is there a way to reset this?
You can long-press on a universal link and it will give you an action sheet with an "Open in 'AppName'" option. Once you select that option it will default to opening the links in your app again.
You need pull down in opened page in safari from email, etc to see button "Open" (this button is system in safari). If tap "open" after
I accidentally tapped "mywebsite.com >"
universal link will work again under the old scheme.The result of this action preserves.
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#dan is right, long-pressing the hyperlink will give you the option to open with your app again through universal link.
If you have an Apple Smart Banner in place, you can also click on its 'Open' hyperlink to active universal links on your app again.
For a Branch.io deep link the long tap (at least in GMail) does not work and also you can't pull down from safari, it brings you to the App Store immediately.
Instead, copy the link to Notes and then do the long press.
More info here: https://blog.branch.io/3-steps-to-troubleshoot-ios-9-and-ios-10-universal-links/
I've been working on a couple of iOS action extensions for a while, but I have noticed an odd behavior I was wondering if anyone else saw. In short, after you install and turn the extension on from the share button menu and leave the menu, it disappears from the menu.
More specifically, when you first install the extension, you expect you have to press the share button, scroll the bottom bar menu (for the action extensions) all the way to the right, press the "More" button, toggle your extension on and then press done. At that point the icon for the extension will appear and you can use it. However, the next time you want to use the action extension, the icon will not appear and you have to repeat the process, even though when you look in the "More" menu, the toggle switches for your app are already flipped on.
I wish I could add images to further elaborate here, but I can't because of StackOverflow's rules.
I have not been able to find any information on this any where, so I was hoping someone here has noticed this behavior or not. Any help on resolving this would be greatly appreciated.
This has been a bug in iOS 8.3, and has been acknowledged by Apple.
Fixed in iOS 9.
Issue on OpenRadar
How to solve:
The new share extension is NOT visible in the default list, and is CHECKED in the “More…” list. Changing any of the switches and tapping Done will show the new share extension in the default list.
I'm trying to build an "Save to Foursquare" button to my site, but it doesn't work on an iPad. In fact, I checked and none of the sites that use this button work on the iPad - pressing the button just darkens the display but doesn't show the Foursquare dialog. Is there a fix for this?
We just pushed an improvement to handling the save-to-foursquare button on iOS. Hopefully that should fix whatever problem you were hitting?