I know there are some issues with setting the default browser in iOS, but a number of third party apps allow you to set which browser opens web links. For example, I use the Microsoft Outlook app for email, and it gives me the option in its internal settings to open links from Outlook with Safari, Edge or Chrome. Brave is not an option, even though I have it installed. It would be good to get Brave in as many of those places as possible. I don’t know if that requires contact with each developer, or whether with something like Microsoft it’s entirely about what they consider relevant, but if it’s something as simple as making sure Brave shows up as a browser option in the OS, that would be a quick fix.
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It was particularly funny trying to sign into the forum … got it to mail me the link which I opened in the gMail app which then only offered Chrome or Safari as my browsers (although I have Brave and Firefox also installed!)
Very much a bad iOS pattern (not very ‘brave’ of them!) not allowing users to control the default handlers for a number of link types and very frustrating that developers and the press just give them a pass for it (though Microsoft got hauled over the coals)
I would add this request as well. I really want to use Brave as my universal browser, but this is show stopper for me. Far too much of my workflow involves hyper linking from emails in Outlook.
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I too would like to be able to open links from Outlook I’m Brabe on iOS.
I would love this too. Raised this recently with outlook as you can have most browsers as default in iOS but in outlook, you can’t have Brave
Not sure if Brave needs to do something or if it was just an outlook issue to add this
Wow. It’s 2021 and this issue still exists. I signed up to community to report this as a bug. I got my email confirmation in outlook click the link and ended up in Firefox. How ironic. Please put on development review list. I would Brave to be the one and only browser.
DLMaine
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in the outlook app there is a button in the settings to use the default browser.
all of my links open in Brave when this is turned on
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Not on iOS. On Android there is such an option, but in iOS the list is statically set to specific browsers, such as Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and a few others. There is no “System Default” or “Default” option, or an entry for Brave.
Are you on a beta (TestFlight) release? Also, the fact that yours says Touch ID (not Face ID) tells me you’re on an older device, too, so maybe that makes a difference. On an iPhone 12 Pro Max, running iOS 15.5, and with the general release of Outlook (not a beta), this is what it looks like:
IPhone SE 3 running iOS 15.5
iPad Mini 6 running iOS 15.5
Microsoft Outlook version 4.2220.0 stable
Very strange, then. I’m using the same version of Outlook, so the only difference seems to be the model of phone.
its been like this for quite a while on my iPads and iPhones
Very weird. I just checked my wife’s phone (an iPhone 13 Pro Max) and hers is the same as mine. I’m not sure what’s making the difference between your app and the rest of us.
I just tried uninstalling the Outlook app entirely and reinstalling it (after removing it from the download history to make sure it wasn’t downloading some kind of cached iCloud version, and would be a new download), but that had no effect.
I realise our app versions are the same, but, Microsoft do roll out features sometimes over a period of time. I remember Edge not being the same for me in the UK as it was for others in the states.
I know this is not a fix, but I’ve moved to Spark Mail on iOS it’s a excellent email app
Stumbled across this thread looking for a solution to this problem. After reading this thread, for some reason I decided to set the default browser to Safari rather than Firefox, that makes it pop in Brave, so perhaps Safari in the outlook settings really means use default browser for current version of Outlook (Version: 4.2312.1 ) at least on an iPhone 12 Pro Max
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Yep, this worked for me too with iPhone 13.
So pleased after 2 years to have found a solution, thanks guys!