How to share the link of a solution which published on apple support comunity?

Good morning,

I did not direct you to the link icon. The one is the toolbar is for inserting links into a post here, not another app.

To copy a link to a specific response, hover the cursor over the fine print between that poster's avatar and the text body. Right-clicking will give the "Copy Link" option. Example:

That can be pasted into another app as an active link. I pasted yours above into TextEdit to test:

I just confirmed that clicking the link shown in TextEdit opens this discussion in Apple Support Communities at the point when the link was copied.

The knotty issues of copyright protection/legality is far beyond us mere end-users. Logically, the copying of text to another platform or app may be very different legally from simply furnishing a link that allows your correspondents to read the answer within Apple Support Communities. I am not an attorney but a redirect to the original source—like a link does—sounds much kinder to copyrights.

It occurred to me later that an easier way than asking Apple Legal is to ask our forum Moderators. Their email address is in the the forum Use Agreement:

Apple Support Community Terms of Use

Do you mean share in these forums or share somewhere else? The latter might involve copyright issues with Apple Legal.

Section B.10 of the Terms of Use to which we all agreed to follow on signing up here states Apple has license to use what you post but is non-specific about a member posting it elsewhere:

License to Use Submission. By posting a Submission, you agree to grant Apple a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive worldwide right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, make available to the public, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to the Submission. If you do not want to grant Apple the rights set out above, do not send your Submission to the Site.

To avoid a Nasty-Gram from Apple's legal staff, I suggest you contact them beforehand if you wish to show ASC content on a non-Apple site:

apple.com/legal/contact

For everyone here:

This is a link to the ToU; please read section B, para 10.

Apple Support Communities Use Agreement - Apple Community

Having interpreted legal terms/contracts for years, I would not post a link to anything here on a different site. This had been discussed some years back and the hosts' suggestion was not to share anything elsewhere - sharing within the realm of these forums is fine.

I believe you may be referring to my post, in which I misspoke. I DID NOT mean “Now you can paste the link wherever you want,” literally, I meant: “You can post the link wherever you want WITHIN THE APPLE SUPPORT COMMUNITIES.”

(The all capital font is only for the purpose of emphasizing.)

So yes, whoever may have been misled by my post: Heed the advice given by babowa here: How to share the link of a solution which… - Apple Community.

Thanks babowa.

Dear OP:

And to do what Allen described, using an iPhone, just follow the screenshots below:

First long-press on the specific post’s “address”, highlighted in yellow:

Next just tap “Copy Link” and away you go! Now you can paste the link wherever you want. Users tapping on this link will be directed straight to the post, instead of just the thread:

I hope this is helpful! Have a wonderful day!

You see the problem is that once anything is posted here, it becomes Apple's property and they would have to consent to it. Personally, I would not share a link or even copy an answer and make it available somewhere else as it isn't my property to share. Just because something is available online for you to read does not mean it isn't someone's property.

You may use the chain link icon (on the right side) to load a specific anchored post on a web page. That URL can be copy-pasted when sharing.