Deferred Deeplink not working on iOS 10

Question

Hi im having a issue with deferred deeplinks on iOS 10. Its strange because it only happen on iOS 10 and above. On iOS 9 and 8 it works fine. When I send deferred deeplink from APP ADS Helper the result which i get in the below metod in iOS 10 is “success” instead of the url which i need to handle, which is recived fine on iOS 8 and 9.

[deferredAppLinkRequest startWithCompletionHandler:^(FBSDKGraphRequestConnection *connection,
                                                      id result,
                                                      NSError *error)];

In the documentation it says : ” Beginning with iOS 10, iOS doesn’t support deferred deep linking, so you can’t open content other than the starting screen once people have installed the app. ”

What should i do ? does ios 10 not support deferred deeplinks anymore, should i handle it linke normal deeplink in (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application openURL:(NSURL *)url sourceApplication:(NSString *)sourceApplication annotation:(id)annotation ?

Here is my code in didFinishLaunching

if (launchOptions[UIApplicationLaunchOptionsURLKey] == nil) {
      [FBSDKAppLinkUtility fetchDeferredAppLink:^(NSURL *url, NSError *error) {
           NSLog(@“LINK %@  ERRROR %@“,url, error);

           if (error) {
               NSLog(@“Received error while fetching deferred app link %@“, error);
           }
           if (url) {
           // IM HANDLING IT HERE
               if ([[url host] isEqualToString:@“deeplink”]) {
                  if ([[url path] isEqualToString:@“/smth”]) {
                    //my code }
                }
           }

previously worked fine with this code, suddenly stoped working on iOS 10 and i dont have Url to handle ? Any ideas ?

May be this can help you: blog.branch.io/ios-10-wwdc-deep-linking-review — Andrew Romanov

Alex Bauer Alex Bauer · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-05T23:51:36

Beginning with iOS 10, iOS doesn’t support deferred deep linking, so you can’t open content other than the starting screen once people have installed the app

This might be true, if you're relying on Facebook for deferred deep link handling. This was never a good idea, because Facebook's deferred deep link functionality is not good (to put it mildly).

Fortunately there other options for this. I'd recommend looking at the Facebook ads functionality from Branch.io (full disclosure: I'm on the Branch team).

Deferred Deeplink not working on iOS 10

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