My App Is Dead in the Water

Re:My App Is Dead in the Water by lathiat on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @10:47AM (#18441813)

Given the "back" link from Safari to your app since iOS 11? (10?) - this is the right solution IMHO.

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Re:My App Is Dead in the Water by kalleboo on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @11:10AM (#18442020)

Especially with the swipe gestures on the new phones since the X, my pet peeve are apps that use web views inside their app inside of just opening Safari.

The worst offender is the Gmail app since half the links I click on there interact with cookies in the Safari app (account activation, notifications, etc). And Gmail will even keep nagging me to install Chrome which I will never do. Ugh, I really need to switch away from Gmail.

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Re:My App Is Dead in the Water by kemayo on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @11:17AM (#18442083)

And it keeps on ignoring the "don't ask me about Chrome / Safari again" toggle...

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Re:My App Is Dead in the Water by aaaaaaaaaab on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @11:40AM (#18442317)

They're doing the same in the YouTube app, and even if you choose "Safari" they're not opening Safari, but showing an in-app webview to siphon every last bit of your browsing activity. Truly disgusting.

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Re:My App Is Dead in the Water by jasonmp85 on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @11:16AM (#18442074)

this ain’t it

I don’t want my twitter and RSS reader app exploding my safari tab count. I look at articles all the time in those apps and decide not to open them in safari.

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