IOS 8, Safari and pdf hyperlinks

I Am having the same issue of hyperlinks not working. Its in a registration site I use. Worked in mobile using ios7. Now with new phone there is no response on links.

Hi Guys,

I reported this to Apple and accepted it as a bug. There is a case number assigned and taken the issue to Engineering team. We have thousands of business iPads relying on PDF links in Safari and all seems broken now. No immediate alternatives except asking users to use Chrome to browse pdfs.

One more point, I tested this issue in the iOS 8.1 beta2 release but no luck too. Waiting for a response from Apple. Update you guys if any turnarounds ...

Did using Chrome solve your problems? I have a multi-page document with several links within the document and still having trouble getting the links to work. Just wondering if using Chrome worked for you and what you did? Did you just download the Chrome App and then use it to open your document?

I've run into this on an iPad and iPhone with 8.1, too. Quite frustrating. One (slightly clunky) workaround I've found is to use the "Open in iBooks" option that briefly appears a the top of the screen when the pdf is first loaded or refreshed. The links seem to work in iBooks and they bring you back to Safari to open the new URL.

Another frustrating thing is that I can't seem to select the text from URLs in pdfs. The select tool only selects a single word and can't be resized (or if it can then I can't figure out how). This approach wouldn't have worked for the original poster's pdf, but would have worked for the cases I had run into. I was hoping to select the text from the URL and manually paste into a new tab.

Hi,

Too late to reply you :-(.

Yes, install the Chrome browser and access the PDF link. Our users are not happy with the Chrome idea because they were used to Safari all along. To be frank Chrome browser is performing well these days. We are evaluating and trying to implement HTML5 based solution from Mozilla PDF.js. It is a waste of time and resource due to this small silly, frustrating issue.

No idea when does this get resolved because there are no other solid solution that runs PDF within the browser. More over, IOS Safari does not allows to configure or install other PDF reader plugins to run as part of the browser otherwise alternatives like Adobe reader could be used.

Just fix the f...ing bug please Apple. It is more than annoying that websites that worked fine before now don't!

Dear all, in my case all my projects depend on pdf hyperlinks too. And still today's (as 2014/12/15) iOS 8.1.2 version update does not fix the problem! I can not belive it. It is not a minor problem, imho. My clients are very very upset, and I really do not have an alternative or solution to this... except using another browser instead of Safari... but that is not a solution... how can be possile that Safari, the official browser, still can not read hyperlinked pdfs? nobody cares?

Sorry if I was too rude, but my clients are really upset and the pressure is very high...

This is a silly bug but costs a lots of money to build an alternative solution in an unfriendly way. We are building a native pdf viewer to suite our need. From Safari go to native and come back. No idea why Apple is not honoring our bug report for such a LONG period. They took lots of time just to accept it as a bug. I reported this right from 8.0 release and from that point many betas evolved and not fixed yet. If they can't fix it, let the IOS open source to people, we will fix it.

Fix it asap, going for Windows phone next ....

I couldn't agree more - this is an absolutely fundamental function - I thought Apple's big push was 'iPad in the Enterprise' - how can they strand all of their business users like this - leaving them with a browser that can't open a link in a web-based PDF?

We just purchased a whack of iPads for Board Members and they cannot open their agenda documents.

At least Apple might see fit to comment in their own forums about this?? A timetable for the fix? C'mon!!!!!!

I found a fix for me. Just yesterday I turned on RESTRICTIONS for Websites.

Go to Settings>Restrictions>Websites

I had "Limit Adult Content" turned on. I allowed all sites and PDF documents were back in Safari.