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Is there any way to hide new status bar back button introduced in iOS9? I mean the button that is visible after launching application by [UIApplication openURL:].

mkr833
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    I don't know why you're downvoted. Anyway, I'm not sure if fighting with new iOS features is the right thing to do. That button should rather stay there, also I doubt we have the possibility to hide it (can't find any reference). – Nat Aug 07 '15 at 07:25
  • After looking everywhere, I see no way to do this. I hope they add an ability to do this in the future. There are many cases where it would be appropriate to not show this back to app button. – spybart Sep 17 '15 at 21:01
  • Possible duplicate of [Is there a way to hide "Back to Safari" from status bar in iOS9?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31247787/is-there-a-way-to-hide-back-to-safari-from-status-bar-in-ios9) – Tr0yJ Dec 06 '15 at 10:00

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Every time you use [UIApplication openURL:] iOS9 will generate the back button to the previous app. This feature is added to enable quick jumping from app to app.

Apple made this private and developers are not allowed to enable or disable this option. Hopefully next versions of iOS will make this not so comfortable feature optional.

Bagrat Kirakosian
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    Usually is handy. But when I send a user of to authenticate via OAuth (Facebook, Safari, etc) and 15 seconds they're back, it seems a little bold to include the control in that case. – Jasper Blues Nov 03 '15 at 04:09
  • The OS has no idea that it was for an auth request unfortunately :/ – derrrick Dec 01 '15 at 19:40
  • @derrrick why not use a webview or safariviewcontroller for that auth request? just convenience or another reason? – manmal Mar 21 '16 at 10:37
  • @manmal safariviewcontroller is a really good option in some cases like you mentioned for auth but unfortunately it is only iOS9+ which can be worked around by webview though though all of these is a lot of work when you just want to open a link and I think that what question is about :) – Bagrat Kirakosian Mar 21 '16 at 16:15
  • @BagratKirakosian there are very-quick-to-add cocoapods though that are not harder to add than SFSafariViewController. – manmal Mar 21 '16 at 20:22
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    @manmal there definitely are some good cocoapods but I think question is a bit different – Bagrat Kirakosian Mar 22 '16 at 05:55