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The title is pretty self explanatory. The issue i’m having is that window.open will only seem to open links in a new tab instead of a “new window” or a new instance of mobile safari. I’ve tried every little hack/trick I can think of, but it always just opens it in a new tab. Am I missing something or am I going to have to go native to work around this?
Safari on iOS only has one window in one process (and the same goes with basically any other iOS app). You can’t open a page in another instance or window, only a new tab.
You can’t work around this in native code using App Store-approved SDK methods either, not in Safari nor in your own application. It’s just not the way iOS apps work.