Like many former Mint users who’ve had to switch to Credit Karma, you’re frustrated with how many steps you have to go through to get to the data you want to see. Recently, Credit Karma sent out a promotional email that included a button that took you directly to the app’s deals page. I want to create the same icon on iOS home screen.
I extracted the URL from the email. that:
https://www.creditkarma.com/u/networth/transactions
Clicking this button on iOS will take you directly to the app’s deals page, as desired (1).
To create an iOS home screen icon for a website, you need to open the website in Safari, but the first challenge was that when I opened the above URL in Safari, it redirected to the Intuit login page instead and that page didn’t seem to be visible. It has the ability to open apps.
I discovered that if I turn on airplane mode (2), I can open the link in Safari (it obviously doesn’t load, but it doesn’t redirect either). When I created the home screen icon from that, almost How it works: You’ll be taken to the Intuit login page, which includes the following banner, which allows you to open the app.
Clicking “Open” takes me to the deal page I want, but it’s not the same as the one-click action I got from the original link.
So my question is, can anyone suggest a way to do this with one click?
footnote:
(1) Description: You may be taken to a login page at first, but once you click ‘Open’, subsequent clicks will take you directly to the app. However, using the icon always requires the extra step of visiting the login page.
(2) The following question seems to suggest the same workaround: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15883736/how-to-have-a-custom-url-for-an-icon-on-the-ios- home-screen. They also suggest “iPhone Configuration Utility” but I can’t find a link to that anywhere!
