IPhone – Force a link to open in Safari instead of the in-app browser

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I have an issue with QR Readers. I encode a URL within a QR Code. When read by many iPhone App they will open the URL within a WebView within the app.

I want to open a vCard there, which those internal things just won't do – page stays blank but when opened directly in Safari everything works great.

Here is my example:

If you visit vcard.nikb.de in Safari it will bring up a VCard
If you scan the QR below (which opens the site mentioned) it won't open…

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So my question is: Is there any way to get out of the WebView and open Safari?

Best Answer

This is not possible, unless the app was designed to explicitly support opening Safari (with a button for instance). You can't modify an app's internal messaging to its own webviews on stock OS iOS devices, for app security reasons if nothing else.

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Just because Safari and Chrome are running, doesn't mean that they have a window open. You can either test for open windows as Mark points out or simply issue the reopen command which opens a new window if one does not exist.

tell application "Google Chrome"
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tell application "Safari"
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    close current tab of window 1
end tell

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    if not (exists window 1) then reopen
    set URL of active tab of window 1 to theURL
end tell

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