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Apple has never allowed any app to jump to straight into the right Settings page on iOS or macOS.

Even apps requesting notification changes require users to click through manually.




>Apple has never allowed any app to jump to straight into the right Settings page on iOS or macOS.

Wrong. Dating apps can and do deeplink to their geolocation permissions settings.


Which dating app.

Never seen any app able to deep link beyond the first level in Settings.


https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiapplicatio...

This brings the app to your apps settings page which includes the permissions toggles. We use it in our camera app when the user has denied camera permissions (kind of vital) and need help turning it back on, it brings them right to the correct toggle




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