How to Disable Automatic Link Previews in MacOS Ventura

This has been fixed in Sonoma. Go to Mail > Settings > Composing and turn off "Add link previews".

This feature is super annoying for people that send e-mails including multiple links and build up their own workflow for that over years and it's absolutely unbelievable that there is no option to turn this off.

Thanks for this - just upgraded, looked for fix, found this thread, found all the options to fix:

• Disable rich text (but a pain for everything else, like when replying and reply-body is now in plain text)
• Use Command-K (annoying to do every time)
• Put space before link (annoying to do every time)
• Terminal fix (seems to work permanently, return to old way - did have to restart computer to get it to work)

Yes, very annoying 'upgrade' that makes things worse.

Launch Terminal and enter the following:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/Mail.plist RichLinks -dict-add Enabled -bool NO ; sudo chmod -R o+rX /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags

Enter your user password at the prompt, then reboot.

That should do the trick and it will turn off this "feature".

This "feature" is utterly annoying.

You can type a comma, period, or any other punctuation of your choice, and paste the link right after that to keep it from being turned into a preview (no blank space before the link).

pra6 wrote:

It's astounding that they added this crappy new "feature" without the ability to turn it off. What 17 year old developer thought everyone wanted it? Jeez...

We do not work for Apple but volunteer our time.

So to honest , " What 17 year old developer thought everyone wanted it? Jeez... " we can not answer that question.

Perhaps the user ( you ) would be better served by asking Apple directly

1 - Get Support Choose a product and we’ll find you the best solution.Start now and open an Apple Support Ticket as they are Apple Employees to deal will these types of issues . 

2 - Product Feedback - Apple

I likewise wish a way to permanently disable this.

In my case, 100% of the links I add to internal, work emails are links to password-protected websites: BitBucket, Allspice, a private Google Drive etc. The link previews are inevitably ugly "login to view this content" boxes which are LESS than useful, because the raw link actually exposes useful information: repository, branch, filename etc.

Apple has actively reduced the amount of useful information that readers can view in these emails, and they did it to make our work computers act like frigging iPads.

There IS a way to turn it off... and it was mentioned more than once.

Here it is... again!

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes

I can understand that a preference setting would be better, but once you know the solution, please don't keep saying that it does not exist.

It's astounding that they added this crappy new "feature" without the ability to turn it off. What 17 year old developer thought everyone wanted it? Jeez...

Another workaround I discovered accidentally is typing a space and then pasting the URL seems to not trigger the link preview. Then you can leave the small space or delete it. Still annoying, but slightly quicker than the ⌘K workaround.

I agree. I did not know about your post until today. I posted in November about this issue also (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254398852?login=true&page=2)

It needs a product fix. It’s a very annoying inconvenience.

peterlovs wrote:

It must be because Apple has a business model behind tracking server-calls on the images within our inboxes.

I click "convert to plain link" from your drop-down menu +20 times a day.

Please, Apple. STOP your persuasive image-preview.

It must be because you don’t bother to read a thread before adding to it that you don’t know how to turn the feature off.

You don't like it, you can turn if off.

As has been show already in this thread, this is a one-liner in Terminal.

You just have to do it once, and these previews will never bother you again.

As to the "security risk", as others have pointed out, perhaps you'd care to explain why you say so.

LogicHobo wrote:

when will they give us the option to disable this??

No one here in this user-to-user forum would be able to answer that question. I strongly recommend you submit feedback to Apple regarding this. The more people who do, the more attention Apple is likely to pay to the issue:

Product Feedback - Apple