IPhone -- launch the Photos app

Is anyone familiar with how to launch the Photos app (or a more generalized app launching that I could use to do that)? I'm aware of the URL method to launch certain apps, but I don't know of a way to use this for Photos.
I'm not trying to open a picker -- just close my app and open the photo library, like the bottm-left button does when you're in the Camera app.
Thanks!

I'm not sure that there is a legit way -- maybe it's a private API?
I mean, it has to be possible -- Camera does it...
Anyone?

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