iOS 15 web links do not open from mail or apps until you click on the link a second time

This is the exact issue I’m seeing on my iPhone 13 Pro/256 running iOS 15.1.1.

When touching a link to a tweet from a Twitter email in Mail, it auto launches Twitter app (expected) then loads the “nothing to see here” message. This issue was not present on my launch day iPhone 13. So it must be some point update between then and now where things went wonky.

Hi Komagatake,

To make sure we're on the same page, you're able to tap a link in an app, it opens Safari, but the page doesn't fully load. Only after going back to the app and tapping the link again does it load properly in Safari, is that correct?

If so, and the issue persists after clearing out Safari's history, does it persist if you restart the device?

• Restart your iPhone

Let us know, and we'll follow up from there.

Take care.

Komagatake,

Thanks for confirming.

If the issue persists on both devices, given the steps you've already taken, we'd recommend reaching out to Apple Support directly for additional assistance.

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Take care.

Not yet. But I have managed to figure out how to repeat my issue every time.

From iPhone 13 Pro, running most up-to-date iOS:

• Launch Mail.
• Select an email from my Inbox.
• Click a link in the email that takes me to Safari.
• Return to Mail.
• Return to Inbox.
• Close Mail.
• Launch Mail - this will not auto-load my Inbox but, instead, open the last email for where I linked out to Safari. 100% repeatable. 100% frustrating.

Hi. I am also having a similar issue with the Kik Messenger app as well. If I am sent links or attachments they can’t be opened from the app and it freezes. I need to shut the Kik app down and restart but still it doesn’t allow me to “click” on any links or attachments. I think this is an IOS issue and not Kik. Any suggestions?

I cannot get any links to open at all on my iPad Pro.

this is very frustrating and and I can only copy the text of the link not the underlying address so cannot get to the page by other means.

Please can someone say how to resolve this? I have upgraded to the latest update and restarted both the Mail app and the iPad

If I'm Twitter, this is a HUGE problem.

From a user POV, it has seen my interaction with Twitter drop measurably - as linking from Mail tends to be my entry into Twitterverse.

For me, this started with iOS 15. Would be ok seeing a fix soon.

Same here, also tried uninstalling and reinstalling Twitter (the app that I link to from Mail most often). No joy.

i have essentially been unable to use Twitter since ios15. (Just comes up with “Nothing to see here -Yet”)

i would be happy to roll back to 14 to get this functionality back…

I have been looking all over

Clearly, the solution is in Apple’s (and Twitter’s?) hands. While it’s likely a blessing we can’t link to Twitter from Mail, for me it’s more about a functionality that was there and now, mysteriously, isn’t, that has me slightly agitated.

Less twitter in my life is probably a good thing. Maybe it’s a “feature.” ;)

Exactly the same issue for me on iPhone 12, ios 15.1. First click on the link from email will open safari and safari looks like it’s trying to open the page but never actually open it ( I don’t have the patient to wait for 5 minutes so I don’t know if eventually safari will be able to open it or not). Only after going back to Mail and click on the link again, the page will load immediately!

It’s certainly ios issue and it’s easily replicable, please fix it!

I am having a similar problem but, in my case, selecting a link in an email from Twitter takes me to the Twitter app I have installed on my iPhone 13 or the app on iPad 2 Air. In my case it get the "Nothing see here - yet" message and nothing I do in the email (clicking again, etc.) works. If I open the Twitter email on my Windows laptop and click a tweet link, it works fine by opening Twitter in my Chrome browser and showing the Tweet I selected in the email.

Is this a related problem? Is there another thread in this forum that addresses this problem?