How to Disable Automatic Link Previews in MacOS Ventura

Unfortunately, for the most part Apple seems to ignore suggestions from mere customers.

stumpjumper wrote:

It appears there is a new *feature* in MacOS Ventura (v13.0) where Mail automatically changes URLs to Link Previews in rich text emails.

But I would rather NOT have it automatically change them — I prefer to have the URLs spelled out — and I cannot find a way to turn this feature off.

A colleague said he read somewhere that once you manually change it back that the application will recognize and not do it again. This did not work for me.

Anybody know how to make it stop making the Link Previews? Help...

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if you hover your mouse over the link proper you see the mouse over popup for the the URL...

if you move your mouse to the end of the link you see the carrot (v) which when clicked will present a Quick Look of the destination URL/site.

As far as I can tell there is no change here, unless I am missing something(?)

ref: View and edit files with Quick Look on Mac - Apple Support

Mail User Guide for Mac - Apple Support

As a workaround pressing ⌘K, pasting the URL into the the text field and clicking OK will insert the URL as a link without converting it into a 'preview'. Without leaving the keyboard it's ⌘K, ⌘V, return – faster than clicking the arrow and converting it back that way. There definitely needs to be an option to disable it globally though.

Use plain or rich text in emails in Mail on Mac - Apple Support

But not sure this can be done on Received e-mail

 Product Feedback - Apple and make it known to Apple regarding this ongoing issue and ask for some added Feature .

ScrimshawHatcheck wrote:

Apple, please make this ridiculous feature go away!

Apple doesn't read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let them know your thoughts here:

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sonkasaurus wrote:

Oh my, this needs to stop.. Pretty please! Maybe a tickbox option to turn this off for ever in the advanced settings?

It is single handedly the most useless, slow and layout disruptive feature ever to grace the Mail interface (which I otherwise like).

Please!

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ConradvSchubert wrote:

Apple, please: make things that complicate life an option, not a default. This "feature" and other annoyances such as the removal of templates will make me abandon Apple Mail very soon.

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I would point out that Apple probably doesn't care wheter or not you use their Mail app. In fact, if you decide to go with an app costs money and you buy it throught their App Store, that is of greater benefit to them.

dreamer0201 wrote:

Obviously, someone who doesn't do real work created this.

Or perhaps they just do a different sort of work than you. It is within the realm of possibility that not everyone has the same needs that you do.

Tell Apple what you'd like to see here:

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peterlovs wrote:

Please, Apple. STOP your persuasive image-preview.

Are you using Sonoma? If so, the issue appears to have been resolved. You can read the post that was published immediately before yours for details.

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Sorry, you are wrong. The content loads for the sender AND the receiver. And it is very annoying for everyone.

Instead of fixing issues and bugs they add (unwanted, noisy) features that can’t be disabled.

What a mess macOS has become… 

A single space as first char of line before the URL also prevents unwanted preview formatting

Really slows production down since I have to go back and fix the thing every time. Obviously, someone who doesn't do real work created this.

Apple support just contacted me and told me the Sonoma update had option to turn that dang thing off. I downloaded it, installed it and it worked. FINALLY!

Thank you, Apple

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