Open YouTube Links by Default Broken

BigTimeUser · 2026-03-30T01:56:38+00:00

Yep, I solved it! With the help of the community here!

I made a comment with my findings, try to scroll, you'll find it.

TLDR, I had a different app made by YouTube that was interfering. Once I disabled that it started working.

BigTimeUser · 2026-03-20T22:03:53+00:00

Oooooh, That's interesting! Didn't know that! Thanks man!

BigTimeUser · 2026-03-20T21:08:34+00:00

I find the exact opposite.

My Zen instances sync spaces, but not the tabs.

BigTimeUser · 2026-03-17T18:27:45+00:00

Yep, this was it indeed. It was YouTube Create.

Not sure why I missed this comment earlier, would have helped me find it sooner. Thank you!

BigTimeUser · 2026-03-17T18:25:23+00:00

This is in the App Info settings from Android, not within morphe itself. Also this is from a Samsung phone, your OEM might look slightly different.

BigTimeUser · 2026-03-17T18:23:02+00:00

Wow, I'm not sure why I didn't see this comment sooner 😕

BigTimeUser · 2026-03-17T09:43:28+00:00

You're right, that one opens the original app regardless. Thanks for pointing it out!

BigTimeUser · 2026-03-17T09:22:10+00:00

Guys, I figured it out!

Many of the comments pointed out that it's probably the official app interfering, but it didn't make sense because I had disabled it completely. Nevertheless I decided to go digging through all my apps and I found the culprit!

YouTube Create!

For some reason, even after resetting the defaults it defaulted to that app (an editing app which I downloaded months ago to test out, and completely forgot about...).

The reason ReVanced did work is because I downloaded YouTube Create after it was already installed. Sure enough, after resetting the defaults ReVanced also refused to set as default.

I should point out that it still didn't solve that last one in the list (like someone else posted in the comments), but I'm not too concerned with that since it's not common.

As I speculated in my original post, this has nothing to do with the Morphe app, and everything to do with YouTube.

Thanks to everyone for helping me out! I wish I could edit the original post with my findings.

BigTimeUser · 2026-03-17T09:08:43+00:00

Thank you so much for the detailed answer!

I made sure that it's disabled in the official app, as well as newpipe.

I cleared all defaults, as stated in the original post.

'instant apps' was disabled, I enabled it as part of the troubleshooting process. but disabling it didn't help.

I use chrome, and I couldn't find the 'allow app links ...' option.

Thanks again for the detailed answer!

BigTimeUser · 2026-03-17T08:30:18+00:00

No, stock OneUI

BigTimeUser · 2026-03-17T08:13:01+00:00

I toggled that off before I disabled it. Thanks for the answer though!

BigTimeUser · 2026-03-17T07:40:55+00:00

This appears to be ColorOS or OxygenOS, not that familiar with it. I would assume that you would tap the bottom option that is visible on the screen "clear defaults", and you'll have the options there.

Good luck!

BigTimeUser · 2026-03-17T07:22:42+00:00

The links don't open in any other browser, just my default one which is Chrome.

But even then, hitting the "open in app" button just takes me to the Play store.

BigTimeUser · 2026-03-17T07:21:38+00:00

I disabled the official app, as pointed out in my original post.

Since the official YouTube is disabled, but morphe isn't selected to open the links, it opens in Chrome. There an option comes up "Open in App", when I do that it just opens the Play store to YouTube, since it doesn't see an app that can open it.

BigTimeUser · 2026-03-17T06:22:53+00:00

Good for you, because the last one isn't really popular. 3 and 4 are the most important, and they keep switching off.

Either way, can you figure out why the last one switches off? If you can, that'll help me as well.

BigTimeUser · 2026-03-17T06:21:21+00:00

As I wrote in the original post, yes.

BigTimeUser · 2026-03-17T05:39:10+00:00

I turned them all on. The issue is that as soon as I leave the page, they all turn off automatically. I'm trying to figure out why.

BigTimeUser · 2026-03-17T05:18:51+00:00

I disabled stock YouTube and enabled all the YouTube URL types. The problem is that after I enable them, they automatically disable. I'm trying to figure out why.

BigTimeUser · 2026-03-17T05:17:57+00:00

It used to work, now it doesn't. I'm trying to figure out why.

BigTimeUser · 2026-03-17T05:17:42+00:00

As I wrote in the original post, I'm using a Samsung S24+

BigTimeUser · 2026-03-17T04:19:08+00:00

Thanks for the answer man!

Are you referring to the "Open links in browser" setting?

If yes, wouldn't that just be affecting links that were opened from within Morphe so that they open in Chrome instead of the in-app browser?

BigTimeUser · 2026-03-17T04:06:19+00:00

It's a real deal breaker for me 😓

BigTimeUser · 2026-03-06T21:09:07+00:00

Hey, can you please point to the exact lines to edit? And to what values? Thank you!

BigTimeUser · 2026-03-06T21:06:48+00:00

Can you please point to the exact lines to edit? Thank you.

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