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INSTALL_REFERRER_IOS.md
  1. Create a web page that the user will visit (with Safari) before being sent off to Apple App Store
  2. This web page will save a cookie with the value you want in INSTALL_REFERRER
  3. Then redirect to the App Store, user downloads and installs the app
  4. App opens SafariViewController (can be hidden with some tricks) and the web page opened inside has access to the same cookie
  5. The web page in SafariViewController opens a standard URL scheme to communicate back with the app
  6. The app receives the parameter via the URL scheme in AppDelegate

Note that this assumes that the original web page was opened in Safari, if it was opened in some 3rd party app, you're out of luck. There's no 100% accurate method that I know, only heuristic ones in this case.

@geldarhb
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We used this trick on AppMyDay as well and it worked like a charm. You should be careful with explicitly launching Safari to grab your cookie - Apple did not like the fact we're doing that (they defined it as bad UX for the users) and rejected our app until we removed this flip-flop behaviour.

@oriharel
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Check out this: https://github.com/mackuba/SafariAutoLoginTest

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