# OpenURL is blocked by Safari Popup Blocker

**URL:** <https://community.appfarm.io/t/openurl-is-blocked-by-safari-popup-blocker/1989>\
**Category:** Bug reports\
**Tags:** actions\
**Created:** [August 29, 2025, 6:42am UTC](https://community.appfarm.io/t/openurl-is-blocked-by-safari-popup-blocker/1989 "2025-08-29T06:42:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![oyvind.byhring](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.appfarm.io/oyvind.byhring/32/1060_2.png) [@oyvind.byhring](https://community.appfarm.io/u/oyvind.byhring)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 6:42am UTC](https://community.appfarm.io/t/openurl-is-blocked-by-safari-popup-blocker/1989/1 "2025-08-29T06:42:31Z")

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When using the OpenURL action to open a link in a new tab, Safari’s pop-up blocker kicks in and from a user perspective “nothing happens”.

In Chrome on mobile, I get a pop up warning.

In my case, these are both triggered by an On Click event, but it seems like the browsers don’t interpret them as direct user interactions, ref. [this stackoverflow post](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9880316/javascript-window-open-in-safari).

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**Author:** ![oyvind.byhring](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.appfarm.io/oyvind.byhring/32/1060_2.png) [@oyvind.byhring](https://community.appfarm.io/u/oyvind.byhring)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 7:36am UTC](https://community.appfarm.io/t/openurl-is-blocked-by-safari-popup-blocker/1989/2 "2025-09-01T07:36:22Z")

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Found the cause, and can reproduce in 2 different solutions:

If you use the Create Object on a database connected data source before using OpenURL with "Open in New” it will be treated as a pop-up, and will be blocked by Safari on mobile and desktop.

![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/appfarm/original/2X/4/4cc7892c5f8e0e84f87726fdb9a7fa49f24c52d5.png)  
If you swap the order, there’s no problem.

![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/appfarm/original/2X/a/a7356c999478dbbe21ca8b4a4c1c2ae7d7993945.png)

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**Author:** ![tonje](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.appfarm.io/tonje/32/119_2.png) [@tonje](https://community.appfarm.io/u/tonje)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 8:07am UTC](https://community.appfarm.io/t/openurl-is-blocked-by-safari-popup-blocker/1989/3 "2025-09-01T08:07:48Z")

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Hello, and thanks for reaching out! Great job on digging and finding the root cause, this is valuable information and I will pass this along to the developer team.