Dynamic links / universal links not working in cold start

Question

I use firebase dynamic links. They work perfectly fine when the app is in background and I use the application continue userActivity function. However if I click on a dynamic link and cold start the application (not running in background) then not only does the application continue userActivity not run, when I breakpoint at didFinishLaunchingWithOptions, I try to print launchOptions and it returns nil.

I setup the dynamic links exactly like the documentation describes.

In the associated domains - I have applinks:*******.page.link and under URL Types I created one with the identifier *******.page.link and the URL scheme as my Bundle identifier.

In didFinishLaunchingWithOptions - before FirebaseApp.configure() , I do (as instructed from a similar question I found about universal linking) FirebaseOptions.defaultOptions()?.deepLinkURLScheme = org.*******.*****

Answer 1

To receive the Firebase Dynamic Links that you created, you must include the Dynamic Links SDK in your app and call the handleUniversalLink: and dynamicLinkFromCustomSchemeURL: methods when your app loads to get the data passed in the Dynamic Link.

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