Programmatically opening the settings app (iPhone) [duplicate]

Question

Is it currently possible to go to Apple's Settings application from a third party iPhone application? It's currently possible to open mail, safari, etc. What about Settings?

Answer 1

As of iOS 5.0 you are able to open the settings app using the "prefs://" URL scheme. You are out of luck on earlier versions.

Answer 2

suggestion from Yatheesha is right, but fails under Xcode 7.0/ swift 2.

use:

UIApplication.sharedApplication().openURL(NSURL(string: UIApplicationOpenSettingsURLString)!)