Are deeplinks to Apple apps acceptable?

I see online theres list of urls app can use to deeplink to Apple apps: https://github.com/bhagyas/app-urls#references-and-additional-resources

are these acceptable by Apple? Apps just want to redirect the user so they can take some appropriate action.

Thanks for your post.

You should check per app what are the ones published to the open with a link by looking at the published documentation like https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/featuredarticles/iPhoneURLScheme_Reference/Introduction/Introduction.html

These are a few to make a phone call or send a message like

  • tel:, sms:, mailto:

Or to open Apple Maps

  • maps:// and https://maps.apple.com/?...

Also you should looks at the Universal Links as some have an AASA file to open those like:

  • Universal Links to music.apple.com, podcasts.apple.com, tv.apple.com, books.apple.com

Always check if the scheme is documented on developer.apple.com, or there's an official UIKit/EventKit/MapKit/StoreKit/MessageUI API for it, use that. If it's not documented and you only found it via a GitHub gist or reverse-engineering, treat it as unsupported.

If you tell me which specific Apple app/action you're trying to deep link into, I can point you to the framework or documented schema or API.

Albert  WWDR

Are deeplinks to Apple apps acceptable?
 
 
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