Kindle app for iOS: The Open in Kindle dialog in Mobile Safari doesn't take the user to Kindle app - but to the app store!

iOS 13.3
Kindle App for iOS (version 6.26)
Date: 01/09/2010

Description:

I've repeatedly run into the variations of this bug. After doing some searches on social media, I was surprised to learn I wasn't the only one who has been confounded by this issue. Take a look at this thread, this is exactly the problem I have been running into repeatedly:

I have 200GB of space free on my iPhone, and I use the Kindle app most days, but for some reason every time I buy a Kindle book in Safari and tap "go to Kindle" it takes me to the App Store and I have to re-download the Kindle app. I presume this is a bug in app offloading?

— Nick Lockwood (@nicklockwood) November 15, 2019

If a user buys a book an e-book from Amazon using mobile safari, a "Read Now" button, along with a prompt to open in Kindle, doesn't actually open the Kindle app. Instead, it drops the user in the app store listing for the Kindle iOS app. I know that Apple prohibited directly buying content from Amazon from within the Kindle iOS app, but why would being taken directly to the app be prohibited? Seems like something is wrong here.

This sums it up pretty well!

It's hard to imagine how a bug in URL routing could make the App Store think an app isn't installed, but with today's Apple who knows...

— Nick Lockwood (@nicklockwood) November 16, 2019

I snagged a video of the problem today:

I agree. Very aggravating! .@AmazonKindle .@Werner Is this a requirement from Apple? Couldn’t they throw up the banner after pressing the button to take directly into the app? .@AppleSupport pic.twitter.com/zNf5AbYYRt

— Random iOS Bugs (@RandomiOSBugs) January 9, 2020

There are a couple of ways to get this problem to continually reproduce. Here's the easiest:

1. Using Mobile Safari, buy an ebook off of Amazon
2. Bookmark the page
3. Go back to the purchase page
4. Click on "Read Now"
5. From the "Open in "Kindle"" prompt, select "Yes"

Result: An "Open in "Kindle"" prompt does not take the user into the Kindle iOS app when selected. Dumps user in App Store

Expected: Affirmatively selecting "Yes" to an open in Kindle prompt should take the user inside of the Kindle iOS app - not to the App store listing

Go to a bookmarked mobile Safari page from a purchased e-book. Select "Read Now"...

Select the "Open" option...

Taken to the App Store listing?