Opening my app from a Reminder on IOS using objective C

Question

I have created an app that creates a reminder, adds a alarm with a structured location, and sets the URL to be my app. My intention is that when the user sees this reminder on their phone and they click on it, it should open my app. But this doesn't seem to be working.

What is working is that my app does create the reminder, it is geofenced, it is just that when the user clicks on the reminder they are taken to the IOS calendar and not my app.

Here's the code that I used to set the reminder URL:

  NSString* url = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"HealthTracker://"];
  self.reminder.URL = [NSURL URLWithString: url];

I also updated the URL schemes in the pinfo.list to contain the name of the app.

Screenshot of pinfo.list

Is there something else I should be doing?

I am targeting IOS 9.1 and using my IPhone 6 to test this.

Answer 1

Unlike calendar entries, reminders don't support URLs. Run the Reminders app and there is no way to add a URL.

The EKReminder has a URL property (inherited from CKCalendarItem) but the Reminders app itself doesn't support a URL.

I ran into the same problem and ended generating a Calendar event so the user can open my app from the event.

I submitted an enhancement request to Apple asking for the Reminders app to support URLs. Maybe in iOS 10.