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What we learn from routing taps out of in-app browsers, written down. Failure rates come from our own traffic, not from other people's blog posts.
Why App Store links open a blank page in Instagram, and how to fix it
Apple's redirect into itms-appss://, why a WebView cannot follow it, the four escape routes with code, and where each one fails.
Facebook ad clicks that never reach the App Store
Which objectives lose taps and which do not, why Facebook blocks the escape more often than anyone else, and what a fifth of a budget looks like in numbers.
TikTokTikTok link opens the App Store, or nothing at all
Two complaints with opposite causes, a ten-second test that tells them apart, and why campaign tags belong in the path rather than the query string.
CodeHow to detect an in-app browser from the user agent
Markers for ten apps, a detection function, and what to do since iOS 26, when Facebook stopped identifying itself.
Universal linksWhen links open the App Store instead of your app
The apple-app-site-association checklist in the order things break, plus the cases where iOS refuses on purpose and you are debugging nothing.
All of it is built into one link: paste a store URL, get an address that survives every in-app browser, and see which taps arrived.