Roon app not opening community in Brave browser on iPad (ref#FIBAO3)

[benjamin]

Hi @JTD,

Thanks for the update! We’re unfortunately not seeing any remote devices tied to your account, and we’d next want to analyze a set of Roon remote logs from your issue iPad.

Could you please follow the steps below:

1. First, toggle “Save logs to Files on next startup” from your iOS Settings for the Roon App.
2. Reproduce the issue a few times.
3. Access your Files App on the phone and upload the log file to the link below.

Upload the iOS logs here:

https://workdrive.zohoexternal.com/collection/nocvrfc5b2ddab55140af8640f1d7ce13291e/external

In the meantime, if you fully delete the Roon app on your ipad and perform a fresh reinstall, do you suffer the same issue?

Thank you!

[JTD (Off line for the rest of 2026)]

Hej Hej Benjamin, I am in Sweden right now and my Roon Rock server in The Netherlands is down. So I cannot test what you want me to do. I will be away until June 19. What you could do in the meantime is trying to replicate the error by installing Brave on Ipad? Probably you already tested this. It isn’t too difficult to replicate Otherwise we have to wait until I am back from a refreshing holiday

Cheers John.

[JTD (Off line for the rest of 2026)]

Hey hey Benjamin, did you see my message above somewhere? Other apps work to start Brave, Roon does not.

< just checked this, other apps open Brave without any problem >

Cheers John

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[connor]

Hi everyone,

There are two issues underpinning these reports:

First, there was a cert renewal issue that emerged in early March (see here):

Why is Roon Community Site "Not Secure"?

This is what Chrome was indicating to me… [Screenshot 2026-03-23 141512] But I deleted my browser data again, closed and reopened Chrome, and all is good now. Thanks everyone for the feedback

This could cause the “Site connection not verified” popup in the original screenshot that @Suedkiez shared.

This issue should be resolved by now after our team updated the relevant certificates.

Second, there is the actual load failure on iOS with Brave browser. This is a confirmed bug in Brave for iOS, not a Roon issue. Starting with Brave version 1.58, Brave introduced a regression in how it handles links opened from external apps. Two specific failure modes were identified and tracked by Brave’s own engineering team:

Case one: Links triggered from outside Brave fail to load (brave-ios #8383)

Case two: Links that open in a new tab (target=_blank) fail to launch third-party apps (brave-ios #8494)

Roon’s Community links fall into the second category. Brave issued a partial fix in version 1.60 but the target=_blank case remained unresolved. The same links work correctly in Safari and Chrome, confirming the issue is isolated to Brave’s URL handling layer.

The workaround is, well, to set Safari or Chrome as your default browser, or to copy the Community URL manually and paste it into Brave.

Note that the brave/brave-ios GitHub repository was archived in May 2024 when Brave migrated to a new repo structure, so these issues are no longer receiving updates. That said, there are recent reports of related issues on the new repro.

Ultimately, Brave remains the authoritative owner of this particular issue, but we will ensure our engineering team is aware in case they can implement any workarounds on our end.

[JTD (Off line for the rest of 2026)]

Hej Conner, thank you so much for clarifying. What puzzles me is why some apps on iOS open Brave and others don’t. Maybe I missed the explanation in your reply. Anyway I will use Safari until there is a proper solution on the Brave browser implemented or a workaround in Roon. Would it be helpful when I open or reopen this with Brave to get it going again?

Cheers John

[JTD (Off line for the rest of 2026)]

Hej Hej Benjamin, I decided to freeze Roon© for a while, at least for 6 months, maybe a year. Eating in the same restaurant for 8 years isn’t a good idea unless the menu doesn’t change

So I am going to experiment with Audirvana© and Plex©, hopefully one of them gives me more peace of mind So I can enjoy the music without too much hassle.

If Plex© and Audirvana© do not satisfy my needs I will use Qobuz Connect© that I like a lot. For the local files the Matrix Audio© app is fine with the internal storage in my TS-1

I might consider using Roon again, someday, you never know, lifetime subscription

I will report to the Roon© community in a while, thanks to everyone for the continuous support, that was very helpful.

I won’t be monitoring the Forum and I hope you can solve this issue for other Brave users.

Cheers John

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