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Web Share

Opens the system share sheet with the track's title and the post link.

Now Playing on a phone: the cover, the title and artist, a seek bar, and the play controls — The Share button opens the phone's share sheet.

How Riff uses it

The Share chip in Now Playing calls navigator.share() with the track title and the post's URL. A rejected promise from dismissing the sheet is swallowed.

Why

On a phone the system sheet is how people send a link to Messages or another app.

Without it

Falls through to the clipboard and a Copied toast.

Where

plugins/riff/assets/riff.js, line 1126
```
await navigator.share( {
```

Links open the source at the commit this page was published from.

Reference: Web Share on MDN.