Apple Finally Makes Links In App Store Apps Descriptions Clickable

Sebastien, Mar 16, 2010

Until now if you wanted to click on a link in the description of an app in the App Store on your iPhone, well, you couldn’t. Links were not clickable, which sometimes was very inconvenient.

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A Small but noticeable change, Apple finally made these links clickable. I found out about it today while updating Tweetie.

Or maybe it’s been here forever and I’m just figuring it out?

Update: @TouchReviews told me on Twitter that links have been clickable only in the ‘updates’ section. Very amateurish of me; I should have know that.

 
  • http://www.ititothemes.wordpress.com iTito

    but why is it that apple don’t allow clickable links in the app store?

  • http://soyludico.de Marian Rick

    whats your amazing appstoreskin?

  • http://www.iphonedownloadblog.com Sebastien

    @Marian It’s a tweak called Matte UI. You can find it in Cydia and activate with WinterBoard

  • http://www.socialjitney.com iPhone Application Developer

    Nice to know that links in App Store Apps Descriptions are clickable. Thanks for the update.

  • http://www.oogtech.org/content Tea

    Apple clearly specifies appstore descriptions are the app-maker’s responsibility.
    Most app makers just want to link innocuous stuff (reviews etc…)
    But lots of unrelated stuff would creep in unless links are filtered.
    So I’d like links to be clickable… but for now they aren’t, and allowing that may cause more delays in apps being accepted/description updates appearing in-store.