Ugh, why has Apple done this?
Now I paste a URL into an email to report spam and the mail app executes the call to the server generating a “rich link”
I don’t want a rich link. I certainly did not want to tell the spammer I was here. 😩
How do we opt for basic paste without the unhelpful extras?
While it can not be turned off automatically, just click the image and choose "Convert to Plain Link"
Mail will switch it back to plain text with a hyper link like it use to.
Yeah, it is REALLY annoying, but there is a work around.
I don't have the 3D Touch > Hide Preview option either. How do we turn off link preview when composing an email in iOS 16?? I have "Haptic Touch" but there is no option there. I have "Touch Accommodations" but that is turned off. There seems to be no way to turn off link preview in settings in iOS 16 that I can see. Please confirm how we can turn it off. It's annoying as ****.
That is helpful Hooliganism!!
I still cannot believe it though…. Apple the guardian of privacy is giving it up and making things bad for people fighting off spammers/hackers/phishers/malicious fools. It’s just unreal.
Currently. Not ultimately.
Ultimately would be when someone says, “There is a fix and this is how to do it…”
Bit late for me to get my critical thinking into gear though 😂
(Not taking away from you that the feedback channel is helpful info)
Incredible ... someone in Apple creates such a nonsense "new feature" and it is not possible to even switch it off ... Together with "follow up" emails ( when suddenly your old sent email comes into your inbox), "unsend" etc.
While nobody cares about very essential features for years - like customisable swipe options etc. Every now and them search function stops working ... but yes, we will create new amazing features :(( And thousands of people waste their hopelessly trying to find out how to disable these unwanted behaviours ...
Just tell us, please, how to insert a link into a mail as **plain text**!
I can‘t post links to some of my favourite mailing lists anymore, because they don‘t allow images!
Not amused
Trixi
It is annoying as F***, indeed it is. In fact it is annoying as F****** F***!!!
The most ridiculous idea Apple have had recently. Seriously messed up.
Thanks! Marked helpful and I have submitted in the feature requests in product feedback.
This is not a duplicate, the thread you linked is about MacOS. This thread is about iOS.
👋 freebird3411,
Thanks for pointing this out - the context had escaped me
The issue is still the same and the important thing is it gets addressed
Regards
Oh yes that is true. I don’t know if I can change the “best answer” now though.
Interesting, it stayed default for me in future emails.
So basically I have to do 3 things to get to the same place I was before just without doing anything. That's insane.
I need a setting to turn it off permanently!
Disable Link Preview in Apple Mail (appeared in iOS 16.1.1)
