Call the official *Settings* app from my app on iPhone

Question

At one point in my app, I would like to redirect the user to the official Settings app. If possible, I also want go straight to the Network section within the Settings app.

I think what I need is the Settings app's url scheme and the format to construct my request. But I doubt that calling such an official app is forbidden.

Can anyone can help me?

Answer 1

As noted in the comments below, this is no longer possible in iOS version 5.1 and after.

If you are on iOS 5.0, the following applies:

This is now possible in iOS 5 using the 'prefs:' url scheme. It works from a web page or from an app.

example urls:

prefs:root=General prefs:root=General&path=Network 

sample usage:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"prefs:root=General"]] [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"prefs:root=General&path=Network"]] 

Answer 2

From IOS 8 you can call the settings from within app with this:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:UIApplicationOpenSettingsURLString]];