Slack iOS URL Scheme

Question

Can I link directly to message someone on my Slack team from my iOS app? If I just open a slack: url, it will open the slack app, but not linking to someone's message thread. I tried a few obvious ones:

• slack:ptarjan
• slack://ptarjan

but I'm punching in the dark.

For reference, Facebook Messenger's is fb-messenger://user-thread/{user-id} and skype's is skype:{user-id}?chat'.

Answer 1

A bit late to the party here, but currently this works with the desktop app:

slack://channel?id=<channel/group/user-id>&team=<team-id>

Use the Slack API to get your team id with team.info and your channel ids with channel.list.

I don't know if this works their native apps or in-browser app. It's worth noting that it's not official so Slack could potentially change it at their whim and without notice.

Answer 2

I heard from them, it is not supported yet but planned.