Disable UIWebView for opening links to redirect to apps installed on my iPhone

Question

When I browse some link in my app(in UIWebView), it opens the that link's app installed in my device. How can I restrict it to open external app and load the same URL in my UIWebView.

Possible duplicate of [Disable WKWebView for opening links to redirect to apps installed on my iPhone](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37086605/disable-wkwebview-for-opening-links-to-redirect-to-apps-installed-on-my-iphone) — Saheb Roy, Jan 12 '18 at 07:22

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 08 '18 at 18:42

Maybe someone will find it useful:

func webView(_ webView: UIWebView, shouldStartLoadWith request: URLRequest, navigationType: UIWebViewNavigationType) -> Bool {
    if navigationType == .linkClicked, let req = request.urlRequest {
       webView.loadRequest(req)
        return false
    }
    return true
}

Thus, I block the opening of the link in the side application, such as YouTube app, but open it in the UIWebView.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 12 '18 at 08:05

0

You can use func webView(UIWebView, shouldStartLoadWith: URLRequest, navigationType: UIWebViewNavigationType) in UIWebViewDelegate to do that. For example:

func webView(_ webView: UIWebView, shouldStartLoadWith request: URLRequest, navigationType: UIWebViewNavigationType) -> Bool {
    let urlString = request.url?.absoluteString ?? ""
    if urlString == <your app link on webview> {
        return false
    }

    return true
}

You now just replace <your app link on webview> with your actual link that you don't want web view to navigate to

answered Jan 12 '18 at 08:05

dduyduong

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if I return false, then Url is not loading in my app. I want that to load in my app – RBN Jan 29 '18 at 12:37
then just handle it before return false – dduyduong Feb 02 '18 at 09:15

Disable UIWebView for opening links to redirect to apps installed on my iPhone

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