{"id":30172,"date":"2020-09-17T16:27:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T20:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30172"},"modified":"2022-06-30T13:49:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T17:49:48","slug":"setting-default-apps-in-ios-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/17\/setting-default-apps-in-ios-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting Default Apps in iOS 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2020\/09\/17\/ios-14-default-app-settings\/\">Chance Miller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2020\/09\/17\/ios-14-default-app-settings\/\">\n<p>One of the new features in iOS 14 is the ability to change the default email or browser app to a third-party alternative such as Chrome, Edge, or Outlook. A bug in the first public release of iOS 14, however, causes your default browser or mail app setting to reset to Mail or Safari when your iPhone or iPad reboots.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You can tell which features and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kocienda\/status\/1306600888098631681\">services<\/a> Apple uses a lot internally.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/how-to\/google-chrome-default-browser-ios\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/how-to\/google-chrome-default-browser-ios\/\">\n<p>The latest version of Google Chrome now supports this ability, so anyone on iOS 14 can set Google&rsquo;s app as their default browser and it will be used to automatically open web page links that are tapped in other apps.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/09\/16\/duckduckgo-default-browser-app-ios-14\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/09\/16\/duckduckgo-default-browser-app-ios-14\/\">\n<p>Privacy-focused browser <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/duckduckgo-privacy-browser\/id663592361\">DuckDuckGo<\/a> is now able to be <a href=\"https:\/\/spreadprivacy.com\/duckduckgo-privacy-browser-ios14\/\">set as the default browser app<\/a> on the  iPhone  and the iPad, serving as an alternative to Safari. With DuckDuckGo set as the default, links that you tap on an  iPhone  or  iPad  will open in DuckDuckGo instead of Safari.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/09\/16\/microsoft-outlook-default-mail-app\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/09\/16\/microsoft-outlook-default-mail-app\/\">\n<p>Microsoft has updated its Outlook app for iOS devices to enable support for the new iOS 14 feature that lets third-party mail and browser apps be set as default apps (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/9\/16\/21440252\/microsoft-outlook-ios-14-default-mail-app-update-release\">The Verge<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KhaosT\/status\/1304243486816784385\">Khaos Tian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KhaosT\/status\/1304243486816784385\">\n<p>The default browser implementation is really lame&#8230;this alert will show all the time when you try to open a link &#x1F612;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I haven&rsquo;t seen other complaints about this, so hopefully it was fixed in the GM.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steipete\/status\/1305428113900408834\">Peter Steinberger<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steipete\/status\/1305428113900408834\">\n<p>PSA [to developers]: You want to add http\/https to <code>LSApplicationQueriesSchemes<\/code>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/23\/ios-14-and-ipados-14\/\">iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 Announced<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/06\/ios-default-apps-and-competing-with-built-in-apps\/\">iOS Default Apps and Competing With Built-in Apps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/18\/the-hotel-cupertino-clause\/\">The Hotel Cupertino Clause<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"setting-default-apps-in-ios-14-update-2020-09-22\">Update (2020-09-22): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/news\/one-week-after-launch-users-already-have-several-options-for-alternative-browsers-and-email-clients-on-ios-and-ipados-14\/\">John Voorhees<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/news\/one-week-after-launch-users-already-have-several-options-for-alternative-browsers-and-email-clients-on-ios-and-ipados-14\/\">\n<p>New alternatives are being released all the time[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>As easy as the process of switching is, though, the feature is not bug-free. I have been unable to get iOS or iPadOS to recognize my new default email client after I switch it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"setting-default-apps-in-ios-14-update-2020-09-28\">Update (2020-09-28): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/09\/24\/apple-releases-ios-14-0-1\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/09\/24\/apple-releases-ios-14-0-1\/\">\n<p>iOS 14.0.1 fixes a bug that could cause third-party apps set as the default to reset after the iPhone is restarted. It<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/9\/25\/21456191\/facebook-messenger-whatsapp-default-iphone-app\">Chris Welch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/9\/25\/21456191\/facebook-messenger-whatsapp-default-iphone-app\">\n<p>But many other categories of apps &mdash; messages, music, calendar, etc. &mdash; remain stuck on Apple&rsquo;s built-in software. Facebook isn&rsquo;t too pleased about that. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/facebook-opens-new-fight-with-apple-over-messaging\">According to <em>The Information<\/em><\/a>, Facebook is making a more forceful push to convince the iPhone maker to let people choose their own preferred messaging app.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"setting-default-apps-in-ios-14-update-2020-10-22\">Update (2020-10-22): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/10\/21\/default-apps-in-ios-14-reset-after-updates\/\">Hartley Charlton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/10\/21\/default-apps-in-ios-14-reset-after-updates\/\">\n<p>Although that bug was fixed, a new bug in  iOS 14  and  iPadOS 14  is now afflicting the selection of third-party email apps and browsers. It appears that whenever a selected third-party app is updated, the default app selection for email app or browser is reset to Apple&rsquo;s Mail or Safari.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>They really didn&rsquo;t want to add this feature. Imagine how well sideloading will work if it&rsquo;s ever mandated.<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"setting-default-apps-in-ios-14-update-2022-06-30\">Update (2022-06-30): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristianSelig\/status\/1542541528882626565\">Christian Selig<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristianSelig\/status\/1542541528882626565\">\n<p>[When] Apple added the option to set a different default email app, their API, <code>MFMailComposeViewController<\/code>, for whatever reason wasn&rsquo;t updated to support this so you have to rely on <code>mailto:\/\/<\/code> links that don&rsquo;t support attachments, etc.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chance Miller: One of the new features in iOS 14 is the ability to change the default email or browser app to a third-party alternative such as Chrome, Edge, or Outlook. 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