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Editor's pickLearn why a link opens in the browser instead of the app, and troubleshoot Android App Links, iOS Universal Links, domain files, and device settings.
Find out why a shared link shows the wrong image or title. Check Open Graph tags, test image access, and refresh the preview with Meta’s debugger.
Learn to compare working and failing API URLs, spot path, query, duplicate-parameter, and encoding differences, and know what a URL diff cannot reveal.
Fix a link preview showing the wrong image by checking Open Graph tags, image access, crawler errors, page caches, and platform preview tools.
Find where UTM parameters disappear in a redirect chain, inspect each hop, and separate URL issues from analytics attribution and consent problems.
Fix npm ERESOLVE conflicts by tracing peer dependencies, checking version ranges, preserving lockfiles, and choosing safer alternatives to --force.