Is it possible to Deep link to App Clips (iOS) from a third-party / trusted apps?

Question

From my App Clip, I want to use a third-party / trusted app for authentication, this will lead the user to switch from App Clip to a third-party app where the user will authenticate himself and the third-party app should be able to deep-link / switch to App Clip once the authentication is successful.

The question here is whether it is possible for a third-party app to return back the user to the App Clip? If yes, how?

I have also posted this question on the developer forum and haven't received any response yet. https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/680267

Appreciate anyone's prompt response/suggestion on this. Thank You :)

Leathaleather

This is a pretty interesting question but App Clips are pretty new and information about them is scarce. Have you tried doing this yourself? What have you tried and what was the outcome? – Calkins

Hi @EmilioPelaez, thank you. I tried to add appClips & appLinks to associated domains, however, when I navigated to the third party app and tried invoking the App Clips with the associated domain did not work. – Leathaleather

Have you tried using a URL scheme? – Calkins

Sure, let me give it a try. – Leathaleather

Hi @EmilioPelaez, I tried the URL scheme, but it did not work for App Clips. However, it worked for the main app. Also, as per the Apple documentation, developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/…, on URL Schemes possess some vulnerabilities and as per some threads and Apple, universal links are preferred. I also tried universal links (app links), it still, did not work. Please let me know if you have any other suggestions? – Leathaleather

That's the extent of my suggestions. I would suggest you contact Apple through the developer account code review request or whatever it is called. If there's a way, they'll help you find out or just tell you that it's not possible. – Calkins

did it work for you? I want to open app Clip from custom scheme urls but it is not working, but it is working for the main application – Bataan

Can't get it work. Looks like bug, #71569391 – Christoforo

Answer 1

As per WWDC2020 "universal links, document types and URL schemes are unavailable". Please refer the below link https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10174/ (at 14:57 in the video)

Bennir