Google AMP hyperlinks in search do not work in iOS 15

Google has confirmed that there is a bug with AMP URLs not working in Google Search with iOS 15. If you’ve updated your iOS device, iPhone, or iPad to iOS and you click a link in Google Search, you won’t get to the AMP URL, if it has one. Not least until Google fixes it on their end.

Google’s Danny Sullivan confirmed this issue on Twitter “There is a specific bug for iOS 15 that we are working on. We expect it will be fixed soon.”

For example, this site has AMP urls and also a mobile app – prior to this error the AMP page would load when you click on a search result in google about this site. Since the AMP URLs don’t work in iOS 15, it takes you to my mobile app (which I actually prefer). Here’s a GIF of it in action:

Ewdison Then was the first person I saw, and he posted about it on Twitter a few days ago:

Has anyone else noticed that when using iOS 15 iPhone Safari, Google doesn’t provide an AMP in the results? It still delivers amp pages from Google results on iOS Chrome. @rustybrick @glenngabe #seo #Google

– Ewdison Dann (@ewdi) October 1, 2021

Jeff Johnson, an iOS developer, wrote this in more detail over here and Danny Sullivan replied to his tweet:

There is a specific bug for iOS 15 that we are working on. We assume it will be resolved soon.

– Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) October 6, 2021

I don’t think this is a huge problem for website owners, just an FYI.

Forum discussion at Twitter.