App Clip Experience Icons after Install

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Created Aug ’20

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What happens to individual app clip experience icons after someone installs the full app?

Let's say I go to coolrestaurants.com/burgerplace and get the Burger Place app clip experience which is powered by the Cool Restaurants app. Then I go to coolrestaurants.com/tacostand and get the Taco Stand app clip experience. That would mean I have two app clip icons in my recents section in my App Library--one for Burger Place and another for Taco Stand.

Now I install the full Cool Restaurants app. What happens to the Burger Place and Taco Stand icons? Do they disappear or do they stay acting as shortcuts to the main Cool Restaurants app?

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Aug ’20

From App Clips > Overview:
When a user installs an app clip’s corresponding app, the full app replaces the app clip. From this moment on, every invocation launches the full app instead of the app clip, and the user gets the functionality of the app clip within the full app. If the user doesn’t install the full app, the system automatically removes the app clip after a period of inactivity.
Again, consider the coffee shop’s app clip: After use, the app clip recommends its corresponding app to the user and they download the app. The next time they see the location-based suggestion and tap it, they launch the full app instead of the app clip. If they don’t install the full app, tapping the suggestion continues launching the app clip.

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