iOS / iPhone
How to Find and Use iOS URL Schemes for Shortcuts
Get IPAs, find URL schemes, discover deep links, and use them in your custom iPhone shortcuts
Apple’s Shortcuts app for iOS and iPadOS has matured quite a bit since its early days as “Workflow.” There are actions now for pretty much everything, so even a new iPhone user without automation or coding experience can build impressive shortcuts to automate tasks and increase their overall efficiency. However, to become a pro shortcuts builder, you need to know about URL schemes.
Nearly all iOS apps assign themselves one or more URL scheme names. Many also code in various path, parameter, anchor, query, and fragment components for specific requests (sometimes called “deep links”). You need to know them if you want to perform more advanced actions that app developers don’t already directly provide in the Shortcuts app.
It could be giving yourself faster access to recent or favorite contacts in Phone, linking to a specific preference in Settings, viewing a photo album or individual image on Facebook, or opening anything in DuckDuckGo.
