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> Apple FWIW, on iOS, links from Google apps open up on Chrome if it's installed, regardless of what your default browser is. Apple seems to be okay with that.
by vishnumohandas 5y ago
> Apple
FWIW, on iOS, links from Google apps open up on Chrome if it's installed, regardless of what your default browser is. Apple seems to be okay with that.
- dev_tty01 5y agoAny app can do app specific URLs on iOS to invoke particular apps with content. I would guess that Google apps detect the presence of Chrome and modify the URLs to be Chrome specific rather than generic https URLs. Its ok with Apple because that is a standard supported mechanism on iOS.
- vishnumohandas 5y agoAs a user who expects all https links to open within my default browser, Google's exploitation of this workaround breaks the guarantees I expect out of the OS. There are a lot of other "features" that are technically feasible but not allowed on AppStore. This to me should have been on that list.
- dev_tty01 5y agoGood point. Yeah, I don't like it either. Thinking about it a bit more, I share your surprise that they allowed this. I guess they need it for google.com links to make things work together, but Apple could have told them non-google links should be opened in the default browser.
- heavyset_go 5y agoAny browser on iOS is just UI over Safari's rendering engine and JS runtime. Chrome, as in Blink and V8, is banned by Apple from running on iOS.