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Asked: 2026-05-26T10:01:22+00:00

I had a potential client ask me if I can prevent a user navigating

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I had a potential client ask me if I can prevent a user navigating away from their website within an iPad app? So I would need to load the client site within a web view and somehow disable invalid links i.e. banners and promotional links.

I am wondering if there is a way to catch the link that has been touched within the view before it is loaded.

If there is no way to do this, is there away to strip a web page of invalid links before it is loaded into the web view?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use UIWebViewDelegate method webView:shouldStartLoadWithRequest:navigationType:. It’s called when user taps a link. Return NO if you don’t want to handle any links or YES if you want your web view to handle the request. More info in Apple docs.

    A nice thing is to filter out some requests and handle them yourself based on e.g. URL-scheme of the request or based on UIWebViewNavigationType value. Note: for a filtered requests that you handle, you still return NO.

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