I'm actually still seeing this issue. When I tap a widget on my home screen with a link, neither the SceneDelegate.scene(_:willConnectTo:options:) or SceneDelegate.scene(_:openURLContexts:) API is called. This prevents me from parsing the URLContexts, I just do not receive that information anymore. Instead, SceneDelegate.sceneDidBecomeActive(_:) immediately is triggered. All these APIs had worked perfectly fine every time on iOS 18. How is this still broken on iOS 26?

This is indeed still an issue as of April 2026. Utilizing Link no longer works in iOS 26 despite having worked in prior versions of iOS. I was seeing the same behavior where tapping on my widget no longer invoked SceneDelegate.scene(_:openURLContexts:). As a sanity check, I went through all my widgets and replaced the following Link(destination: yourURL) { // Your Swift UI View Implementation } with the View.widgetURL(_:) modifier. Sure enough, upon switching to the widgetURL modifier, the SceneDelegate.scene(_:openURLContexts:) API in my SceneDelegate is now being invoked properly.