Outlook for Android opening links in internal browser

Anonymous
2020-07-05T11:24:17+00:00

Hi, I noticed that all my links in my Android Outlook app open in an in build browser instead of the app, (such as youtube) This is really frustrating as I have to do other steps to find the option to 'Open in browser' so it then opens in the youtube app. This is for all links amazon, twitter etc. 

Is there any way to disable this option? I am unable to find it in settings withtin the app.

Thanks

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-01-16T13:42:15+00:00

    https://youtu.be/sSWbd8hVPo0 Make sure Chrome is default browser on your phone then go to settings in outlooks and toggle on 'use default browser'. Hopefully this will keep working as this drives me insane as others say all my info is in chrome and I want it to open with my ither open tabs of things I am working on etc.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-12-10T01:39:21+00:00

    Not if you have a work account in Outlook. Then they still force you to open everything in the app.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-12-10T01:20:23+00:00

    You can already go to setting and check open in default browser. This is already a feature

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-12-10T01:14:20+00:00

    By the way, for all those of you having a go at Mircrosoft for "introducing this as a feature", opening links within WebView (which is what Outlook is doing here) is standard for Android apps and has been for some time. Often it works well and if it's a link that's supposed to open a different specific app that should work too, where it's super iirritating to me is when I have a webpage open in Outlook WebView and then the website sends me e.g. a confirmation code via email which means I have to close the browser window to copy it and then somehow get back to where I was in a browser. Gmail does exactly the same thing.

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