How to Get TikTok Links to Open the App Directly

When you share a TikTok video anywhere outside TikTok — an Instagram bio, a YouTube description, a newsletter — you want it to open in the TikTok app, where viewers are signed in and one tap away from following you. Opened in a mobile browser instead, the same video plays behind login prompts and app banners, and the follow rarely happens. TikTok's link formats are messier than most platforms', so this guide covers what reliably works, what to avoid, and how to handle viewers who don't have the app.

The direct method: TikTok's video scheme

1

Start from the full video URL.

You need the long form with the username and the numeric video ID:

https://www.tiktok.com/@yourhandle/video/7106594312292453675

If you have a short share link like vm.tiktok.com/xyz, open it in a browser first and copy the full URL it lands on — the short form doesn't contain the video ID.

2

The number after /video/ is the video ID. Put it into TikTok's scheme:

snssdk1233://aweme/detail/7106594312292453675

(snssdk1233 is TikTok's internal app identifier — it looks odd, but it's the scheme the app registers.)

3

On a phone with TikTok installed, this opens the video straight in the app.

The catch: no fallback, and scheme quirks

If TikTok isn't installed, a snssdk1233:// link does nothing — there's no web page behind it, so the tap dead-ends unless you add device detection and a fallback.

TikTok's schemes also vary more than other platforms'. Different sources document snssdk1233://, aweme://, and tiktok:// forms, and behaviour differs between iOS and Android. What works from one context can no-op in another — which makes TikTok the strongest case on this site for letting a service handle the per-device logic.

Linkly's Open in app feature does exactly that: paste the normal video URL and each viewer gets the right link for their device — the app when it's installed, the App Store, Google Play, or the website when it isn't — with your click tracking and retargeting pixels firing before the handoff. You can preview what it generates for any TikTok URL with the free deep link tester.

Platform-specific information for developers

iOS

Standard https://www.tiktok.com links open the app via Universal Links from Safari and Messages — but not from inside other apps' browsers (Instagram's, notably), which is where creator links get tapped. There, a scheme link fired on a user tap is the reliable path. Some sources report aweme:// as the iOS-native form; snssdk1233:// is the widely used one.

Android: Intent URLs

On Android the robust approach is an Intent URL built on TikTok's https App Link, pinned to the TikTok package, with an explicit fallback:

intent://www.tiktok.com/@yourhandle/video/7106594312292453675#Intent;scheme=https;package=com.zhiliaoapp.musically;S.browser_fallback_url=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zhiliaoapp.musically;end

This opens the app when installed and sends everyone else to the Play Store (or any fallback you choose).

Not reliably from a public URL. TikTok's profile scheme wants an internal numeric user ID, not your @handle, and there's no public way to look it up. Share a normal profile link, or link to a pinned video instead — video IDs are right there in the URL.

Those short links are redirects that don't contain the video ID. Open the short link in a browser, let it resolve, and copy the full /@handle/video/... URL it lands on.

A raw scheme link does nothing. A Linkly link falls back automatically — to the App Store, Google Play, or the website, depending on how you set it up.

With a Linkly link, desktop viewers simply get the normal tiktok.com page — the app behaviour only applies on phones and tablets.

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