Comments on: Stop iPhone from (Incorrectly) Auto-Linking Phone Numbers

By: Ahmed Hisham

Ahmed Hisham — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:23:57 +0000

Thanks a lot, it was very helpful.

By: Gullstandard

Gullstandard — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:01:58 +0000

Lovely ! Tim , use 123456788

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 23 May 2011 01:19:36 +0000

Does anyone know how I can stop only some sets of numbers from being linked eg dates- but also let the iphone link the real phone numbers?

By: Robert Jacobs

Robert Jacobs — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:29:41 +0000

Didn’t work for me…

The offending text that launches the phone app (and auto-dials) no matter what is: 9 1 63.95
It’s not even a phone number. My only fix was to add a $ in front of the 63.95 So now I have 9 1 $63.95

Ugly, but it works.

By: Terri Ann

Terri Ann — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:18:46 +0000

Any ideas on how to stop the mail app from trying to auto-link addresses and dates too? I’ve tried the obvious, address, location, data, event = no the same way the telephone is structured but haven’t found a solution yet.

By: anthea

anthea — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:45:53 +0000

Great!! Thanks!

By: Marcel

Marcel — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:02:11 +0000

Thank you, sir

By: Keep Iphone browser from turning numbers into links Drija

Keep Iphone browser from turning numbers into links Drija — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:08:22 +0000

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By: How to Stop iPhone from (Incorrectly) Auto-Linking Phone Numbers « Web Page Authority Blog

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:40:57 +0000

[...] Adam Darowski | Blog | Stop iPhone from (Incorrectly) Auto-Linking Phone Numbers Tonight, I was building a page and tested it in iPhone. It incorrectly linked some dates. This was problematic because in that specific section, I had all anchors set to display: block;. So, adding these extra links broke the design. [...]

By: Adam Darowski

Adam Darowski — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:32:00 +0000

Hey Sam (I fixed your comment… darn code samples!),

Thanks for the tip. Soft hyphen, eh? Never used it. Interesting.

By: Sam Marsh

Sam Marsh — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:56:04 +0000

I’ve come to the conclusion that using to prevent iPhone reading the digits as a telephone number is the best workaround at present…

By: Sam Marsh

Sam Marsh — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:06:23 +0000

Any ideas on how / whether you can change the way iPhone decorates the telephone link? I don’t seem to be able to overide this by text-decoration: none etc.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:40:02 +0000

Woops, meant M/DD/YYYY.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:37:42 +0000

Just what I was looking for, thanks!

It’s interesting that the iPhone Safari is so willing to auto-link common non-phonenumber formats, such as the standard MM/DD/YYYY date.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:33:52 +0000

Thanks for the link love. Glad my original post/comment came in handy.
Follow me @graiz

- Greg

By: Adam Darowski

Adam Darowski — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:07:17 +0000

Yes sir! You and a Twitter pal got it at about the same time. I’ve DMed you asking for an address. Thanks!

By: Craig Jolicoeur

Craig Jolicoeur — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:59:39 +0000

That would, of course, be the one and only Edgar Martinez.

Nice iPhone tip as well