Google touts ability for iOS developers to open links in Chrome, add their app to the browser’s back button

Google on Tuesday underlined a useful feature for iOS app developers looking to leverage Chrome on Apple’s platform: basic integration into the browser. Called iOS links, the option lets users of a given app open up a link directly in Chrome, and then hit the browser’s back button to return to the app.

While this feature is not new, the evangelization today follows yesterday’s Gmail for iOS update that changed the app so all links shared through the email client will open in their respective apps. These include YouTube, Chrome, and Google Maps.

Yet this feature goes further since it is available for non-Google apps. As you can see in the example below, a user has tapped a link from the YouTube app and opened Chrome:

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