Recently, Instagram changed something in its iOS In-app browser, and the previous way of escaping to the external browser stopped working reliably.
In v1.0.1, the library uses a different workaround for Instagram iOS.
What is it?
A lightweight TypeScript library that helps users escape from in-app browsers (Instagram, Facebook, Telegram, etc) to their default browser for a better browsing experience.
What has been changed?
The old iOS escaping flow depended on x-safari-https:// scheme. Recently, Instagram has started blocking that route.
v1.0.1 works around it by using instagram’s own external-browser scheme (instagram://extbrowser/?url=).
And there was another catch. Instagram only accepts this handoff reliably when it happens from a user tap. So the library now combines the instagram scheme with a user touch event, instead of trying to escape automatically after page load.
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