Open gallery from app in swift

Question

I wan't to let the user open the iPhone's gallery.

I do NOT need the user to pick a photo nor a video and come back to my app, I am aware that i can achieve this using the UIImagePickerController . What I want is that the iOS gallery app is opened and set active.

As said in this SO question , i know you can use other apps using UIApplication.shared.canOpenURL(url) with the correct url, does it exist a url that I can use for this or is there another method? thanks!.

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you mean by « gallery », but if what you're looking for is opening the Photos app, you may try with this URL: photos-redirect:// Be aware that this is not a publicly documented URL scheme so maybe Apple will not accept its use and may reject your app during review...

Sources: https://ios.gadgethacks.com/news/always-updated-list-ios-app-url-scheme-names-0184033/ and Is it possible to launch (redirect the user to) the native photo gallery application of iphone from my app,