I actually made a shortcut on my phone to do this. Maybe I’m missing some complexity here, but my running assumption is that TikTok only forces you to the app when opening a shared link. If you remove the entirety of the query string in the url (match everything before the ?: ^.*?(?=\?)) it opens fine.
If someone sends me a link, I copy it, and click on the icon on my Home Screen - here’s the link to that shortcut (iOS specific):
If someone sends me a link, I copy it, and click on the icon on my Home Screen - here’s the link to that shortcut (iOS specific):
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/6d62250b944d40f292142d1cdcf...