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A collection of iOS Settings URLs
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Is it possible to run setting URLs in safari? #38

Closed YousufSSyed closed 1 year ago

YousufSSyed commented 1 year ago

When I copy and paste one, like prefs:root=DO_NOT_DISTURB, into the URL bar, it just makes a Google search instead or running. Could it possibly work if the URL scheme was different?

colin273 commented 1 year ago

Safari doesn't seem to recognize prefs: (no double slash) as a URL scheme, even though it works fine in Shortcuts. However, prefs seems to be a restricted URL scheme, so even when I add // after the colon, these URLs don't appear to open settings pages properly in Safari or any other app that isn't Shortcuts.

YousufSSyed commented 1 year ago

So there's no way to enter the URLs in Safari, or at least you know of?

colin273 commented 1 year ago

Correct. For example, if I put prefs://root=DISPLAY in the address bar and then select "Open" on the prompt to open in Settings, Safari immediately tells me that the address was invalid. I don't think there's any easy way around that.