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levching edited this page Apr 8, 2020 · 2 revisions

That's a list of known URL Schemes supported by popular apps.

Keep in mind that developers may change the URL scheme names for their apps at any time. Apple did for certain iOS services, such as links to specific settings that worked prior to iOS 11. Some URL scheme names you can probably even guess since a lot just use their app's name as the scheme name.

Apple-Branded Apps & Services

  • Apple Music — music:// or musics:// or audio-player-event://
  • Apple Music (Radio) — itsradio:// or itsradios:// or itunesradio:// or itunesradios:// (just opens Music)
  • Apple News — applenews:// or applenewss://
  • App Store — itms-apps://itunes.apple.com (add /app/id for specific apps)
  • App Store (Search) — itms-apps://search.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/search?media=software&term=
  • App Store (Top Charts) — itms-apps://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewTop?genreId=36&popId=30
  • Apple TV — videos://
  • Calendar — calshow:// or x-apple-calevent://
  • Calendar (Add Calendar) — webcal://suscribelinkforcalendar
  • Clips — clips://
  • Contacts — contacts://
  • Diagnostics — diagnostics:// or diags://
  • FaceTime (Audio) — facetime-audio://phoneoremail or facetime-audio-prompt://phoneoremail
  • FaceTime (Video) — facetime://phoneoremail or facetime-prompt://phoneoremail
  • Feedback — applefeedback://
  • Find My Friends — findmyfriends:// or fmf1:// or grenada://
  • Find My iPhone — fmip1://
  • Game Center — gamecenter:// or itms-gc:// or itms-gcs:// (pre-iOS 11)
  • GarageBand — garageband://
  • iBooks — ibooks:// or itms-books:// or itms-bookss://
  • iCloud Drive — appleiclouddrive:// (pre-iOS 11)
  • iMovie — imovie://
  • iTunes Remote — remote://
  • iTunes Store — itms:// or itmss://
  • iTunes U — itms-itunesu://
  • Maps — map:// or maps:// or mapitem://
  • Mail — message:// or mailto://emailaddress
  • Messages — sms://phonenumber
  • Notes — mobilenotes://
  • Phone — tel://phonenumber or telprompt://phonenumber
  • Photos — photos-redirect://
  • Podcasts (Add Feed By URL) — feed:// or podcast:// (you can also add a feed URL after to auto-populate it)
  • Podcasts (Browse) — pcast:// or itms-pcast:// or itms-pcasts:// or podcasts:// or itms-podcast:// or itms-podcasts:// (displays a "can't connect" error)
  • Reminders — x-apple-reminder://
  • Safari — x-web-search://
  • Safari (FTP) — ftp://locationtofileonftpserver
  • Safari (HTTP) — http://websiteurl
  • Safari (HTTPS) — https://websiteurl
  • Settings — App-prefs://
  • Voice Memos — voicememos:// (could work in the Notification Center)
  • Wallet — shoebox://
  • Watch — itms-watch:// or itms-watchs://
  • Workflow — workflow://
  • Workflow (Create Workflow) — workflow://create-workflow
  • Workflow (Open Workflow) — workflow://open-workflow?name=name
  • Workflow (Run Workflow) — workflow://run-workflow?name=name&input=input
  • Workflow (Open Gallery) — workflow://gallery
  • Workflow (Search Gallery) — workflow://gallery/search?query=query

Facebook

  • fb://profile – Open Facebook app to the user’s profile.
  • fb://friends – Open Facebook app to the friends list.
  • fb://notifications – Open Facebook app to the notifications list (NOTE: there appears to be a bug with this URL. The Notifications page opens. However, it’s not possible to navigate to anywhere else in the Facebook app)
  • fb://feed – Open Facebook app to the News Feed.
  • fb://events – Open Facebook app to the Events page.
  • fb://requests – Open Facebook app to the Requests list.
  • fb://notes – Open Facebook app to the Notes page.
  • fb://albums – Open Facebook app to Photo Albums list.

These commands only open the corresponding windows. The first useful command I found is

  • fb://publish/profile/#ID#?text=#BODY#

this is a combination of the Facebook graph api and some other info I found on other application. Then a little poke and hope.

replace #ID# with the id of the profile you want to post to, then replace #BODY# with the text you want to post to, and the window shows up in facebook app with the text pre populated.

Also you can use me as an id to post to the signed-in user's profile.

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