change default browser to Google chrome on iPhone 4S (OS6) and iPad 2 without Jailbreaking or Javascript Safari hack

http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-open-urls-in-google-chrome-instead-of-mobile-sa fari-on-iphone-and-ipad-without-jailbreaking/

Coming in late to this party, but at work our TV news department has two iPad's that are used to connect to AP's ENPS servers. We have 3 ENPS servers, 2 for actual work with PCs and one that is running IIS7 on a Server 2008 platform. Recently one of the iPads got upgraded to iOS 8.0.2. That iPad via Safari can longer log into ENPS on a site generated by IIS7. The other iPad that is running iOS 7.x.x has no issues. I can log in on the affected iPad using Chrome and Firefox, but then you run into the ridiculousness of Apple making Safari the only browser capable of opening a page from shortcut or link.

So here we are, in a discussion that has been going on for a long time in this post and many many others like it about Apple's draconian restrictions. Safari used to work, but now it doesn't and now I have to go away from having an icon on the home screen that opened the mobile ENPS page up in Safari to having our anchors launch Chrome, go to the bookmark and then login. Granted it's a few simple steps, but the point is iOS 8.0.2 broke something in the login to IIS7 and with being forced to open links into Safari, they have screwed up a once seamless process and as a result I had to install a 3rd party browser.

This exactly why as as personal user left the iPhone / iPad for Android. I thoroughly enjoyed my iDevices when they were jailbroken, but come on people, you should not have to jailbreak a device just to set a default browser. If this were any other company, the Apple fanboys would be screaming OMGZ MONOPOLY!!!! But it's perfectly acceptable to them when Apple does it.

Pitchy wrote:

If this were any other company, the Apple fanboys would be screaming OMGZ MONOPOLY!!!! But it's perfectly acceptable to them when Apple does it.

While you may disagree with Apple's design decisions, they are not a monopoly by any stretch of the imagination. The fact that there is a healthy market in Android phones of which you were able to avail yourself is proof of that. But, none of that is terribly relevant. This is a technical support forum. The changes you want can't be made by anyone here. Submit your feedback directly to Apple using the appropriate link on the Feedback page:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

You can use the Airmail email app for iPhone. In settings, you can choose your default browser. Airmail is by far the best email client out there with full integrations to collaborate with other apps. I believe the Osx version is a paid version but definitely worth it. Trust me, you won't want to go back after using airmail!