How to Disable Automatic Link Previews in MacOS Ventura

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

What a mess macOS has become… 

Yea, we can do that today. But it's a pain to have to do that every time you paste a link (I do this multiple times a day). The request is to have a setting to display the plain text link always.

it is one of the most annoying features - actually of 2 annoying features overall - in my daily use of macos, at least they could have added a check box in settings/composing to turn this off.

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 is just annoying! so annoying! Any resolves to this to disable?

Hover your mouse right next to that preview in your email and see the little "v" appear. Click it, then choose "Convert to plain link". Really fast and easy. (I have Ventura.)

jgull wrote:

It’s super annoying for, literally, everyone. It’s a huge security risk.

I don't find it annoying so, not everyone. And the hugeness of the security risk is debatable.

kaviji wrote:

It's a painful feature that has triggered clients spam filters twice now and i seriously don't want this feature without the ability to turn it off.

Painful or not, it cannot possibly trigger clients spam filters.

It only affects how you see the e-mail message, not its content, so when it's sent, it has zero effect.

Sorry but a clients email program returned it as it had triggered their filter. They read it as an 'icu' file and returned it. You may not believe this but that is exactly what happened.

I resent it as the usual text and it was fine.

Oddly enough, in my mac (running Ventura 13.0.1), the default seems to be leaving the link as is, no preview...

I never changed any of this, as in fact I only use plain text mail, but in testing for this thread all cases produced just the link until I deliberately changed it.

Maybe there is some hidden setting...

Workaround:

In the Mail app on your Mac, do one of the following in your message:

Choose Format > Make Plain Text (available only when the current format is rich text). Plain text format doesn’t include formatting (such as bold or italic text) or items like tables and images, but is readable for all recipients.

and uncheck the box further down "use same format as original email"

This annoying "feature" is why I am on this forum. I was searching for a way to disable it and super irritated that there's no preference for this.

The only thing I can find that seems to be helpful is to do a "paste and match style" (found in Edit menu). You can memorize the shortcut and when pasting links, instead of doing CMD-V, you can use the shortcut and it seems to work somewhat reliably. Very annoying but at least it's better than multiple steps.

This worked for me. Thank you!

It's just one little extra step...Pressing CommandK before pasting the URL. I can live with that.

But I agree - who thought we'd always want a preview?! Not someone with a lot of business experience, I'd guess.