How to link to app reviews in App Store in iOS 11

Question

Of course I know about the new guidelines and SKStoreReviewController to prompt users for reviews. But this is not about asking for new review but about quickly accessing reviews of different apps.

The Problem:

Previously I used the following format to link from an iOS App directly to the reviews tab of an app in the App Store:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewContentsUserReviews?id=APP_ID&pageNumber=0&sortOrdering=2&type=Purple+Software&mt=8

This worked fine, but in iOS 11 it shows just an empty page within the App Store app. The obvious reason is, that in iOS 11 the app pages do not have a Review Tab anymore, but the reviews are located under the app description and screenshots.

So using the following format still brings the user to the apps store page but one has to manually scroll down to the review.

https://itunes.apple.com/app/idAPP_ID

This works of course but one has to scroll down to the reviews manually. Is it still some how possible to directly link to the review section (just like using an anchor on a normal HTML page)?

Answer 1

This link format will work in iOS 11:

itms-apps://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itunes-u/id123456789?action=write-review

It also compatible with iOS 10.3.

The older versions I didn't test.

There is a country/region abbreviation ‘us’ in the URL. But it doesn't matter. It will always open the app store in the current region. No need to change it. Without these two letters, it can’t find your app.