applinks in iOS 9 not working

Question

I don\'t get applinks: in iOS not working, whenever I open a link like https://www.example.com/something on my iOS 9 device, it gets opened in Safari.

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Answer 1

The behavior of the device/native app making a request to the https:///apple-app-site-association endpoint was unpredictable. But I did notice that adding/removing "applinks:" from the entitlements file did seem to trigger a request. Proxy your device through CharlesProxy and you can see the request being made (albeit, just the domain, not the full SSL request because of certificate pinning) but it is better than nothing.