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I’m having issues with sharing the URL for my App using Facebook.
If I simply copy the link from the Share button in Glide, I’m given:

If I send that in Messenger, it doesn’t tell the user to ‘add to home screen’
If I put the link on FB it is not a link (I added HTTP:// to the beginning of the URL and that gave me a nice link with image, however when people tap on it again it doesn’t display the ‘add to screen’ popup window.
What am I missing? If I send to a person using iMessage it works perfectly.
Thanks, Jeanette

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Facebook has its own internal browser, which isn’t compatible with PWA apps. The link needs to be opened in Safari on IOS or Chrome on Android. Here is a prior thread that discusses this.

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Oh No! Doesn’t seem to be any workaround!

I can see that FB and Messenger don’t open the link in the browser. Not sure what to do!

While I have you there, the link on Glide ‘Share’ is dew2020.glideapp.io should I be adding http:// to the beginning? If I don’t on FB it is not a link, but is in Messenger. If I add http:// to the beginning FB sees it as a link. So bit confused as to what the link should be.
Thanks again, Jeanette

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Hello,

Just one thing, if you have to or need to add a prefix, add https instead of http.

Cheers

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I agree with https vs http. Just add whatever works. It ultimately is the same link and gets you to the same place.

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