# iOS app share-ability

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ios-app-share-ability/152519
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [May 24, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ios-app-share-ability/152519 "2020-05-24T14:04:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![mentalstring](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mentalstring/32/168934_2.png) [@mentalstring](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mentalstring)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ios-app-share-ability/152519/1 "2020-05-24T14:04:47Z")

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On iOS, when on the share sheet of some app, DiscourseHub appears as one of the options, but I’m not sure if it is working?

On Safari I have tried to share an image (long press shortcut) and a page URL but both failed with a “Could not load that URL” error message on DiscourseHub.

Also tried sharing a photo directly from Photos but while DiscourseHub shows for half a second on the screen, nothing else happens as far as I can see. The same happens when trying to share selected text.

What should be sharable into the DiscourseHub? Or is this not intended?

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2020, 5:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ios-app-share-ability/152519/2 "2020-05-25T05:03:07Z")

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@pmusaraj any thoughts here?

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### Author: ![pmusaraj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pmusaraj/32/119489_2.png) [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2020, 5:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ios-app-share-ability/152519/3 "2020-05-25T05:34:01Z")

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> [@mentalstring](#):
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> What should be sharable into the DiscourseHub? Or is this not intended?

Currently you can share URLs of forums that are already added to the app, as a way of launching that url on the app. An example use case would be long-pressing a link in an email to open it in the app instead of Safari or the in-app browser of some email clients (Gmail for example).

We would like to add support for text/images to be shared with the app so it can be used in posting, but that isn’t implemented yet.

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### Author: ![helmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/helmi/32/114772_2.png) [@helmi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/helmi)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2020, 7:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ios-app-share-ability/152519/4 "2020-06-06T19:00:59Z")

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> [@pmusaraj](#):
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> We would like to add support for text/images to be shared with the app so it can be used in posting, but that isn’t implemented yet.

I‘d really love to see that.

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### Author: ![jimkleiber](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jimkleiber/32/121814_2.png) [@jimkleiber](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jimkleiber)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2022, 4:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ios-app-share-ability/152519/5 "2022-11-02T16:44:15Z")

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I would love to see this as well. I imagine many of my users will be using mobile devices and I think the ability to click the share menu and then add that info to create a topic or especially a chat message will make mobile usability so much smoother.
