![]() ![]() And if you have any other tips or tricks for highjacking display methods with iMessage, let us all know in the comment section below! You may have your own reasons for wanting to show URLs “as typed” rather than with link previews. Tom: Apple is really good at thinking thru things. If you have one or more website addresses that you would like to display as text in a Message rather than a thumbnail preview snippet thingy, simply begin the first line with a period (“dot”), and they will display as written. How about starting the entire thing with one dot? Perhaps it would treat everything that followed as a string. But this time I really mean it – I can’t even venture a guess as to why. Why less- and greater-than symbols? Again, I have no idea. Maybe some sort of bracketing would do the trick. The second entry printed with the period at the beginning: Test 2 I guess I figured that a user-accessible URL never begins with a leading dot because the hierarchy is read from right to left. The first thing that came to mind was leading the domain name with a period (Typically referred to as a “dot”). How Can I Keep Messages From Showing a Link Preview? Test 1 All it took was a little intuition and a few tests. Knowing that Apple almost always thinks of these things (they are very good at anticipating user interface needs), I figured there had to be a solution. Note: The blue circle in the image above is a from a carriage return in the text. Not a huge deal because all I wanted was the string of text to print, anyway. Messages attempted to render the URL, but couldn’t because there was no site at the location – nothing to pass through HTTP. So, using Messages on my Mac, I sent: Īnd this is how it appeared: The blue circle is a carriage return It’s called optimizing one’s time and efficiency. I get it – a little copy and paste action saves a few seconds of typing. My brother Tom was registering a domain name and asked for my host’s nameservers to point the new record. Here’s one example… Unwanted Website Preview Use Case Scenario But there are occasions when I want my recipient to see the actual text of the domain name. ![]() Because it’s smart enough to know that what you have typed or pasted in is a link to a website, it renders a thumbnail preview snippet for everyone’s viewing pleasure. What’s cool is that the Messages app does something quite handy. ![]() (Well, perhaps not specifically liqueurs, guitars, and housepets.) ![]() And if you’re anything like me, you probably do the same. It could be a link to a limoncello recipe on for Mom, a listing for a pre-CBS Strat on for a fellow gearhead, or a YouTube video of face-licking puppies piled high on a giggling 8-yr old for my daughter. I’m continually sharing webpages with friends and family via iMessage – predominantly from the Messages app on my MacBook Pro or iMac, often from my iPhone, and occasionally from my iPad. ![]()
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