Open the Current App's Settings From Control Center

[Robert.Walter]

Would not be necessary if Apple would just require devs to add an open app settings to the long press menu.

I never understood why this feature is absent.

 

[Robert.Walter]

Command plus comma is not good enough?

Now where is that darn Command key?

 

[Jakol]

Now where is that darn Command key?

I've already been notified about my incompetence. Thank you.

 

[Astuces iOS]

Maybe because the first half of your comment was literally in the first sentence of the article. MR was never claiming it as a new tip, or new shortcut. It's more of a "hey, in case you forgot, here's a cool shortcut" kind of thing. Plus the crack at Tim doesn't really serve any purpose, and isn't related to the article. But I'm just guessing.

I thought everybody knew about this tip, anyways too bad... Thanks for the reply...

 

[WilliApple]

We couldn't not highlight it here because it's so useful.

wöt is this supposed to mean 💀

 

[capandjudy]

Quite useful. I am always having to get into settings for one thing or another. I linked the shortcut to my Action Button.

 

[BigBlur]

wöt is this supposed to mean 💀

Even though there's a double negative here, it's actually grammatically correct. It puts more emphasis on how useful it is, or that it's so useful it couldn't be ignored. It's a common phrase, basically a fancier way of saying something like "we just had to highlight it here because it's so useful."

 

[Nightflyer720]

How about Apple puts settings for an app inside the app itself? But yeah, I know revolutionary, cutting-edge ideas like that can be hard to implement.

 

[Joosst]

A tip to improve it: change the icon to ‘gears’ to have it make more sense. The safari icon is confusing.

 

[JM]

See my post. It already has a screenshot of the tweak that works with Camera app.

Which “open” do I select?. Open URL?

Doesn’t work. I used the Open URL command.
I posted screenshot if you have any suggestions, because it unfortunately isn’t working.

Okay so “camera” has to be “CAMERA”.

Weird. But I’m not programmer.

Thanks

 

[GlassFingers]

I wish that you could literally modify the setting using Shortcuts too… but this tip is very useful, thanks!

 

[cnnyy20p]

This is one of the iOS UI hazard I will never understand. At least spotlight can search for the app settings.

 

[MilaM]

Would not be necessary if Apple would just require devs to add an open app settings to the long press menu.

I never understood why this feature is absent.

Or they could just make it the default for all apps. It would be an extremely useful shortcut. No pun intended.

 

[GertjeD]

MacRumours should post this tip every week. That’s how useful it is.

 

[WishyWashyUK]

Awesome thanks MacRumors! More like this please 🙏🏻

 

[QuarterSwede]

Great shortcut, but doesn't work with Camera app.

Here's a tweak to make it work with Camera app:

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I'm still working on a tweak to make it work with Home app. Will update this post later.

Added Home to it but it’s not functional. Just dumps you into Settings > Apps

I believe prefs:root=HOMEKIT is either broken or, because Home’s settings are only in the Home app (this really is one weird app), it doesn’t actually have a deep link.

All known settings URL links (GitHub)

 

[ignatius345]

I have this shortcut parked in Control Center and use it several times a week. It’s nice to cut out the manual steps of going to System Settings > Apps > [Name of app] with a single tap.

 

[ignatius345]

I came to say this was a truly useful tip, and it's nice to see something that I don't think could possibly generate any snark in the comments...but I was too late.

I didn’t see that comment at all on my first pass through here. The “ignore” list is really helpful.

 

[ignatius345]

Why people disagree with my post? I knew this tip long time ago...

Yes, you made that quite clear 🙄

 

[appleandpear]

Love it! ❤️ Thanks!!

 

[bice]

The idea of having app preferences only accessible from a central preference app was one of the things that put me off of iphones way back in the start. Maybe apple could fix this in a future release ...