I’m using AnkiMobile 24.11. In my decks I use links to useful materials I like to refer to during reviews. Right now every time I tap a link, iOS switches to Safari and opens link in a new tab. After clicking a few links in Anki, my browser is full of open tabs.
Instead, I would prefer from AnkiMobile to use in-app browser, similar to many other iOS app. When user taps link, an in-app browser overlay is open (without switching out of AnkiMobile app), which can be closed with swipe right.
The historical reasons for the current behaviour no longer apply, so I’ll switch this up in the next build.
I see this change in 25.02
I know it is useful for some users (per above).
Is there a way to turn this off ? Can you add a way to configure the way links are open (in app or in browser) ?
In my use case (tiddlywiki + tiddly remember plug-in) opening the link in the in app browser donwloads the whole app each time (5Mb+) while opening in safari reopens the last opened link without downloading the whole app again (TiddlyWiki is an SPA where all the notes are downloaded at once).
Thank you for implementing this change. In addition to what @ecristius proposes, I would like to make one more suggestion: in Anki 25.02, when I open a link on the back of the card, then close in app browser, I go back to front of the card. I think it would make more sense to go back to whatever side the opened link was.
Hey,
similar to @ecristius I’d really like to open links in another app or be able to turn off the feature of an in-app browser overlay.
In my case, I use links to a medicine knowledge platform called “amboss”.
In the previous versions I used to be able to click on a link, and thus open/switch to the amboss app and was directed to the linked article. Since you can download articles in amboss, this also worked offline.
Now, when clicking on a link, I have to type in my amboss credentials to login into the browser version of amboss (which is worse than the app on the mobile devices) every time I want to get more information to a card/read an article.
This is not a good change for me. Please at least make this configurable. My main problem is the internal browser does not respect dark mode. So I’m using the app at night, click a link, and get blinded by the internal browser. I can click the top nav link to go to real safari or invert the screen, but now I have more clicks in each direction. Additionally, the internal browser doesn’t use the same cookies, so I have to log in again to each linked site.
I follow links from cards all the time. Having an extra tab in the normal safari browser is no big deal. I just close it before returning.
Thanks for considering.
@dae Please make new behavior optional. After the change, I have a few problems:
25.02.2 will introduce a new ‘open links externally’ setting at the bottom of the review preferences for users who prefer the old behaviour. Apple will hopefully approve the update and make it available on the app store within 24 hours.
@dae would it be possible to make the “open links externally” option the default setting?
Users of the AMBOSS add-on (which includes a mobile integration) and our medical decks, have greatly benefited from opening links directly in the AMBOSS app instead of the in-app browser.
While we understand that the new behavior might be helpful in certain cases, several users have reached out to our support channels over the weekend due to the inconvenience caused by this change.
We’d really appreciate your thoughts on whether this adjustment could be reconsidered or whether there are other technical solutions that we can explore for this.
Best,
Daniele from AMBOSS
I’ve made the old behaviour the default in the coming update.
awesome! thank you @dae 
Thank you so much for this change (back to external app as default). I know it’s hard to please everyone. We really appreciate you listening to our feedback!
Really grateful for the change. Like @gbisaga said I know it’s very hard to address everyone’s preferences and workflows.
I really thank you for the update 25.02.2. 
