How do I disable phone number recognition on a mac

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How do I disable phone number recognition on a mac

When I type numbers of 10 or more digits into Calendar events, Notes, and I think some other places, they become a link that brings up FaceTime whenever I click on them (e.g., to make a correction). None of these are ever phone numbers. I have no use for and do not want to use any applications that exhibit this behavior. How can I disable it on my Mac, so no numbers are ever treated as phone numbers, unless of course they are entered into a field that is specifically defined as a phone number (e.g. in Contacts)?

Posted on Aug 4, 2016 8:01 PM

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Raptor Author

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Aug 5, 2016 9:56 AM in response to Rysz

Thank you Rysz. I was so convinced Apple software engineers would never do something so stupid, I spent hours looking for a way to turn it off, and I was beginning to feel pretty stupid myself. Also exasperating was that although a Control-click on the offending link provides an unlink option, that option does not work. If I want to note a travel confirmation number in Calendar notes, it will be identified as a phone number. The only way I have found to break the link is to insert commas. In fact, I don't even want phone numbers to link, so I use commas instead of periods or dashes.

Anyone know how to break this in Terminal?

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Rysz

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Aug 5, 2016 9:43 AM in response to Raptor

I don't believe there is a way to turn this off, although there might be a way via Terminal commands.

To edit auto-recognized text, long-click on the text.

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