Swift Open Link in Safari

Question

I am currently opening the link in my app in a WebView, but I\'m looking for an option to open the link in Safari instead.

Answer 1

New with iOS 9 and higher you can present the user with a SFSafariViewController (see documentation here). Basically you get all the benefits of sending the user to Safari without making them leave your app. To use the new SFSafariViewController just:

import SafariServices

and somewhere in an event handler present the user with the safari view controller like this:

let svc = SFSafariViewController(url: url)
present(svc, animated: true, completion: nil)

The safari view will look something like this: