How to Disable URL Link Previews in iMessage iOS11 (or iOS10, Mac OSX Sierra)

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Adam Bowie picture Adam Bowie · Sep 27, 2016 · Viewed 30.8k times · Source

Unable to send links between my developers via iMessage, as the "preview" feature of iMessage in iOS11 & iOS10 is making it hard to see the exact URL structure, because it is instead inserting a link preview. Is there any way to disable this? Driving us crazy!!

Answer

Bob picture Bob · Jan 20, 2017

Surround the URL with periods.

Example ".http://google.com."

iOS even removes the periods for you So it shows as "http://google.com" < no periods

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