I'm using Opera for Android on my mobile phone. Version 80.6.4244.78244. Android 12.

When I am browsing and come across a link to, say, youtube or twitter, I want to press on that link and have it open in the relevant app. So, if there is a link to a youtube video, I don't want to open a new tab with that video on the youtube website, I want to open the youtube app and view the video there.

I can't find anywhere in Opera's settings that lets me do this. The closest I can get is in two locations:

1. settings > Privacy & security > site settings > External apps.

When I look there, in the "External Apps" part of settings, there is an item "External app shortcut" labelled "Show shortcut in page menu" and an on/off slider. There's no explanation of what this does.

2. settings > Privacy & security > site settings > "All sites".

This takes me to a list of websites, and if I press on one of these, I'm given the option "External app - always open in app" with an on/off slider. This looks like it does what I want, but it's only offered for websites in that list, and the websites I'm interested in aren't listed. And I see nowhere that I can add websites to that list.

What am I missing?

It's rather frustrating that Opera seems to have no proper help documentation anywhere.

@sgunhouse said in Opera for Android - how to open weblinks in external apps?:

@lineweight Your first item says to add Open in external app" to the page menu, meaning that once a page has opened in Opera you could select to open it in the app from there. That allows you to choose for each page, rather than always using the app.

The second option - when on any YouTube page click on the icon in front of the address in the address bar. At the bottom of the panel that pops up will be a link to site settings. Changing anything there adds the current site (YouTube) to site settings, so just enable "Always open in app".

Thanks!

With the first option, I see it lets me choose to do this "always" rather than just this time. And choosing always adds twitter to the list of sites visible in the second option.

Thanks again.

It's poor that there's (as far as I can see) no help documentation for Opera that would let me find this out for myself.

@sgunhouse said in Opera for Android - how to open weblinks in external apps?:

@lineweight Your first item says to add Open in external app" to the page menu, meaning that once a page has opened in Opera you could select to open it in the app from there. That allows you to choose for each page, rather than always using the app.

The second option - when on any YouTube page click on the icon in front of the address in the address bar. At the bottom of the panel that pops up will be a link to site settings. Changing anything there adds the current site (YouTube) to site settings, so just enable "Always open in app".

Thanks!

With the first option, I see it lets me choose to do this "always" rather than just this time. And choosing always adds twitter to the list of sites visible in the second option.

Thanks again.

It's poor that there's (as far as I can see) no help documentation for Opera that would let me find this out for myself.

I'm using Opera for Android on my mobile phone. Version 80.6.4244.78244. Android 12.

When I am browsing and come across a link to, say, youtube or twitter, I want to press on that link and have it open in the relevant app. So, if there is a link to a youtube video, I don't want to open a new tab with that video on the youtube website, I want to open the youtube app and view the video there.

I can't find anywhere in Opera's settings that lets me do this. The closest I can get is in two locations:

1. settings > Privacy & security > site settings > External apps.

When I look there, in the "External Apps" part of settings, there is an item "External app shortcut" labelled "Show shortcut in page menu" and an on/off slider. There's no explanation of what this does.

2. settings > Privacy & security > site settings > "All sites".

This takes me to a list of websites, and if I press on one of these, I'm given the option "External app - always open in app" with an on/off slider. This looks like it does what I want, but it's only offered for websites in that list, and the websites I'm interested in aren't listed. And I see nowhere that I can add websites to that list.

What am I missing?

It's rather frustrating that Opera seems to have no proper help documentation anywhere.