I have a Problem. On Android, Chrome Mobile Devices when i open my website from the Facebook APP my popup is working. e(Popunder)... But when i open the same on my IPhone, iOS, it redirects automatic to about:blank!
Does anyone know this problem?
Regards
Regina
EDIT:
Okay.
1) My Website has got an Popunder script on it from Adcash. 2) When i open the site on iOS, Android, or Desktop the pounder is working very fine. 3) When i open the site on Android, Chrome, etc. from the Facebook inApp is working fine.
But !!!
When i open the site from iOS(IPhone) from the Facebook inApp it will redirect to about:blank empty page...
Do you understand know the problem? I tried many weeks to solve this issue but i don't know why it is so.
I've come across this issue.
On iOS only, and on either Facebook or Twitter's in-app browser
Tap on an article/link
Within the article, tap on a link that goes to a different domain and has a target=_blank attribute
The window is now white with the url set to about:blank
This issue is cross-product and not only Facebook's end.
The only method to address this issue was to change the target attribute from _blank to _self.
I'm trying to see if other people have had this issue or even addressed anywhere else, but this post is the closest I've come across to seeing it addressed.
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I am trying to implement the FB comments plugin (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/comments/) on a website. It's loading fine, but on iOS Safari the user cannot click into the comments field. When trying to click into the field, a quick visual glitch happens, and then focus is lost.
On some phones, if I log into facebook in the same browser, this makes an alert appear, when clicking into the field, to allow facebook tracking. After accepting that I'm allowed to click into the field.
I haven't managed to find any info on this. It's working fine on desktop/laptop macs and PCs, android and in iOS Chrome. But specifically in iOS Safari (on some phones) it's bugging out.
Does anyone know anything about this bug and how to fix it?
It's the settings -> safari -> Hide IP Address (from trackers) switch that stops the FB plugins working!
We are currently developing a PWA for a client of ours. Everything has been going well, but while testing on iPhone (iOS 12.2) we are having an issue with the tags that have sms:123-456-7890 in the href. You get the "Safari cannot open this page because of the sms: tag" (paraphrasing).
If you are browsing the site via Safari (not in the PWA mode), the anchor tag works fine and your iMessage opens up with the number in it. But when you're in the PWA mode and click the link, you get a version of the message I mentioned above.
From doing research, this appears to be some sort of bug in the iOS 12.2 release, though not officially mentioned.
I'm curious if anyone has had any luck with a work-around for this issue?
Thanks in advance.
Edit..to add some code for the anchor tag....
123-456-7890
I've tried many different variations of the sms (with no // or ;), always same outcome when clicking it as a PWA. With Android, everything works fine in PWA mode.
I did find a workaround by using JavaScript
Code Example:
<a href="#" onclick="openSMSMobile();" >
function openSMSMobile(e) {
window.open('sms:1234567890', '_self');
return false;
}
And in case anyone is wondering, if you'd like to add text to the message body, you can use,
window.open('sms:1234567890&body=textGoesHere', '_self');
For Android you'll need,
window.open('sms:1234567890&body=textGoesHere', '_self');
Seems a few people had the issues too, but didn't figure a solution yet. For example I am having exactly the same this one.
Also according to this a reliable way to test if the universal link set up properly or not is to test the link in the notes app, which works for me. (Also works if I send the message with the link to myself.) However I can't open the app directly in most chat apps (eg. slack, discord) nor safari. On the other hand they works with the preview page on.
Anyone had a fix / workaround? Or that's just how it is (saw this might be issues with app trying to open the link in there build in browser and prevent redirecting somehow ?)
Any help or suggestion will be highly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
I had the same issue, enabling both universal links and custom url schemes for my dynamic link solved the issue.
Dynamic Links -> Edit Link -> Define link behavior for iOS
This is the setup:
I have an iOS app (and desktop/mobile web/android application versions as well) that has the "Share to Facebook" functionality. When users share to Facebook, the app generates a public link to the page and posts to Facebook. When users click on the link from Facebook, it routes to a vanity URL and displays the page.
Unfortunately this routing functionality does not seem to be working on iOS devices. When clicking on the share link in the iOS Facebook app or copy/pasting the link into Safari on iOS, the original (non-vanity) link hangs with a blank page and no redirect happens.
I've tested this on Android, Windows desktop, Mac Desktop on multiple browsers with no issues. The issue only persists on iOS in the Facebook in-app browser, in Safari, and also in Chrome for iOS.
Anyone have any ideas what might be causing this?
I am trying to build deep linking feature into my app. I did all the necessary set up for deep linking to work like, enabling associated domains in my app, adding apple-app-site-association to the root directory of my server, and I am serving a valid apple-app-site-association over https, I also validated my apple-app-site-association using this tool Validate your apple-app-site-association.
After doing everything right, I tested the deep linking feature on my iPad and it worked as expected. But when I tried to do the same on my iPhone it doesn't work, it always took me to safari. I tried it on 6s device, I reinstalled the app, I cleared Safari website data & cleared the history. Also updated the iPhone & iPad to iOS 9.3.5. The updating the OS didn't change a thing.
iPad still continue to work with deeplink URLs just like it did while it was on 9.3.4. iPhone still opened the link in safari.
Please give me some pointers on how to workaround this issue, I think this might be an apple bug but again I don't understand how it can work on iPad which is running same software as iPhone. Any help or guidelines is much appreciated.
Thanks.
I was able to fix this issue and this is one of the annoying issue that I have come across, because it doesn't say what is going wrong.
Fix: Whenever the iOS opens your link in safari, you need to pull down the webpage in safari and there you'll see a banner saying that, open it in the app. Once you click on that banner your future links will start opening the app instead of opening it in the safari browser.
There was no error whatsoever and there was no indication why the link was getting opened I am pretty sure that, iOS didn't download the apple-app-site-association whenever I installed the app.
Also note that the banner in the webpage will not be visible whenever your link opens up in safari, you need to pull down the webpage and then the banner will become visible and if you click on open in app banner, it will start opening the links in app.
If in future if you select to view the link in safari by clicking on context menu which appears on right hand side of the status bar, which will be saying "Open in [your app name]" in safari, the links in future will open in safari instead of app, and again if the banner open in app isn't visible, you have to pull down the webpage to see that banner.
HTH.
In iOS 13, similar problem of direct links not opening the app instead it open the safari website directly.
Fixed by updated the below safari setting...
Settings > Safari > Request Desktop Website > All websites > Switch Off
I was facing the same issue in iOS 12, on one device the link redirected to my app and on another device it was always redirecting to Safari and pressing the link on the Notes app was only allowing me to open it on Safari.
What I believe happened was that I pasted the URL in the browser and clicked Go, as I thought it would redirect to my app. No matter what I did ( reinstalling the app, restarting the device, ... ) the results were always the same, redirecting to Safari.
What helped me was deleting the cached data for my domain ( Settings -> Safari -> Advanced -> Website Data -> Swipe and delete the data for your domain ).
After that, everything started working.
I believe this is a bug with iOS Simulator,
In my case it was occurred when I entered an invalid address (with multiple spaces) for example:
Valid One: myApp://order/10003101
Invalid One: myApp://order/1003131
It stopped working even with Valid One and the solution was to clear Safari Website Data:
Go to Settings/Safari -> Clear History and Webstie Data
Device: iPhone 12 Pro Max
iOS: 14.5
Xcode: 12.5