A "dash" on email address after iOS 17 update

Apple,

Please fix this issue. It is absurd that this has dragged on for so long.

What a joke apple is.

I do not have that option in my settings. It’s only a workaround, if it did exist.

Apple needs to fix this.

well nothing has worked for me yet. come on apple! fix this! we pay a lot of , money for your phones. Don't make me buy a google phone.

This is happening to me too. Apple needs to fix this. It started after this ios 17 update. It even happens when I open an email and type a long email address which makes it impossible for me to send an email from my phone because it inserts the dash. Very frustrating.

@danakayw This has nothing to do with who the text message is sent to. This has everything to do with iOS 17 adding a "hyphen" to email addresses being sent in ANY text message. Every single time that I type an email address (ie: my.name@mylongdomainname.com) it will present as my.name@mylongdomain-name.com.

As you can see, those are completely different email addresses. I have had many people ask me why my email address, work or personal, now has a hyphen in it. I then noticed that it is hyphenating all emails texted to ANYONE!

This is a giant bug and needs to be fixed immediately. I concur with everyone else asking if Apple employees NEVER text anyone their email address or if there really is a fix or setting for this that Apple is keeping quiet for some reason.

Either way, please add this to the list of bugs that must be fixed now!

I turned off BOLD text and it solved my problem!!!!

This is just another example of how poor the apple platform has become

glitchy

slow response

phone in need of regular hard reboot

Apple needs to do better

Updated to 17.4.1 and the dash is back!

I really hate when phone updates and then settings get messed up and my i ons move around.

No it does not as there is no auto hyphenation option on my phone.

Hey there Jennie_723,

Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities. We'll be happy to help with your emails. From what you've described, there may be an issue with the contact you're sending to. Try deleting that Contact and setting it up again, including the email. Once that's done, test to see if there's still an added character. If so, reach out to Apple Support for further assistance: Get Support.

Take care.

I just found out it is just a display feature and if you change the text size you can see it doesn't really send a hyphen. Even copying and pasting it, the hyphen will disappear. The real problem is confusion with anyone who still types them in with the same text size. Clicking or copying and pasting solves it.

Your solution also doesn't work. Your explanation of what the problem is versus the expected behavior is really good, though. My guess is you at some point changed your display text size as well and thought the hyphen in books fixed it OR ELSE your case is unique and you did fix it that way but I tried several times and couldn't replicate your result. I'm just not upvoting rather than downvoting. To verify my results you could increase your display text size and see if you get it while the hyphen in books is still disabled. I am happy about knowing I can disable hyphens in books though. That's great for my ADHD brain.

A TEMPORARY solution that helped me send an email address just now:

As someone suggested, I was trying to rotate my screen so that Apple Messages had more room for text characters. But even with auto-rotate lock off, Messages still wouldn't rotate even when other Apps did.

Then I read that this rotation issue can be caused by Display Zoom being on, which it is on my phone because I like viewing everything larger. When I turned Display Zoom off, Messages rotated with the screen just fine, but also the smaller text size meant that I was able to fit this particular email address on one line in portrait mode too.

Settings -> Display & Brightness -> Display Zoom

this is also happening with me but when i sent text/imessage with a long email or line. The dash used to appear while typing (which makes sense) but is also showing up when the text is submitted which makes it appear to have been sent the my clients. which is a serious issue for business copy material etc when being sent. Has there been a solution?