Is there any way to shut off Safari links opening an app?

[Rogifan]

When I’m in Safari and click on a link I want to be taken to the website not bounced out to the app. Is there any way to turn off this feature?

 

[casperes1996]

Not directly at least. If you can network wide block */apple-app-site-association it should stop any deep linking but that’s all I can think of to stop it

 

[Ludatyk]

When I’m in Safari and click on a link I want to be taken to the website not bounced out to the app. Is there any way to turn off this feature?

Not sure that’s possible. I always open link in background to avoid going to an app.

 

[ecatomb]

Long press on the link, in the context menu choose "open in background" instead of "open in app"
Next time, no need to use long press. It works with Twitter and should with orhers

 

[Shirasaki]

Not possible without jailbreak, and apple will never provide an option to break deeplink. A few apps could work without deeplink but more won’t.
For iPad, deeplink is less of an issue because of desktop website loading thing since iPadOS 13.

(Yet another reason ditching high end iPhones and carry iPad around exclusively)

 

[haruhiko]

Long press on the mink, in the context menu choose "open in background" instead of "open in app"
Nzxt time, no need to use long press. It works with Twitter and should with orhers

This is the correct solution.

 

[matrix07]

This is the correct solution.

Long press on the mink?

 

[ecatomb]

Fixed 😅
Mistyped link 😉

 

[Shirasaki]

This is the correct solution.

However it is still very app dependent. If developer deems iPhone user must use app to enjoy all services instead of through safari on mobile, there’s no way around it. The deep link feature must be disabled from iOS to stop such behavior once and for all. But yeah, not possible for obvious reasons.

 

[bmac89]

As an alternative to long press and open in background... you can use the two finger tap gesture on a link to open it in the background/new tab.

 

[Rogifan]

Long press on the link, in the context menu choose "open in background" instead of "open in app"
Next time, no need to use long press. It works with Twitter and should with orhers

Thanks I’ll try this.

 

[Rogifan]

However it is still very app dependent. If developer deems iPhone user must use app to enjoy all services instead of through safari on mobile, there’s no way around it. The deep link feature must be disabled from iOS to stop such behavior once and for all. But yeah, not possible for obvious reasons.

It should be up to the user to decide. I could maybe understand it on iPhone but bigger screen iPads shouldn’t be bumping you out to the app.