Problem when switching from youtube.com to the mobile app

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Description of the issue:

Redirecting from a youtube video in the browser to the corresponding video in the app (via clicking on the up-right button “Open app”) doesn’t work.

When you try to click it, it shows you that the corresponding URL address is not functioning, with the message “this site cannot be reached”, with the error name: “ERR_UNKNOWN_URL_SCHEME”. (See screenshot).

Given an example url address for youtube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD

The URL it redirects to is:

intent://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&feature=mweb_to_native_app_11268432&itc_campaign=mweb_to_native_app_11268432&redirect_app_store_ios=1&app=desktop#Intent;package=com.google.android.youtube;scheme=vnd.youtube;launchFlags=268435456;end

It seems the HTTP syntax is broken (in my non-expert opinion), with the semicolons after the #intent , which seems to be wrong.

Also, the redirect_app_store_ios parameter is set to 1. What?? I am on android, brave.

app=desktop . I am on mobile bro.

i tried to fix these 2 wrong parameters, but the same error occurs.

I also changed ‘;’ parameters with ‘&’, and it didn’t work too.

I had also tried to reproduce the issue in Opera, Chrome and Edge, (i tested them because i was thinking it is Chromium’s fault or something) and all of them were working as expected.

How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Go to a video from youtube.com (important detail: go into the brave browser, no matter the edition)

  2. Click on “open app” button from the up-right.

Expected result:

Brave should have redirected from youtube.com link to the corresponding video in the app.

Brave Version( check About Brave):

Brave Nightly version: 1.83.11

Brave official release version: 1.80.126

Mobile Device details:

Mobile; Samsung galaxy a13 5g (SM-A136B); android 14; One UI 6.1;

Additional Information:

Screenshot_20250807_185240_Brave - Nightly
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Yeah I can reproduce this as well. Bringing this up to the Android team presently.

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I’ve opened the following issue for this here:

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Ah – actually can you please go to Settings → Media and toggle the Open Youtube links in Brave option “off”? This should resolve the issue.

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No; i forgot to say: i already did that and still didn’t work.

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After toggling that setting off, can you try closing and relaunching the app?

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it also doesn’t work.

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I’ve managed to solve the problem, by “three dots” → Settings → Media → unchecking “Open Youtube links in Brave”. Now it redirects to the youtube app. Now, i would suggest the button to work even when this setting is checked (or leave it unchecked by default)

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Yes, those are the steps I suggested initially:

I will leave the issue open for our devs to review.