phone automatically hyperlinked in iOS Safari eventhough phone is set as false

[rohit-131]

Hey, phone is automatically hyperlinked in iOS Safari even though phone is set as false. Working fine for other browsers

messsageToBeReturned = AutoLinker.link(finalMessage, {
      replaceFn: addClassToLinkedMessage,
      phone: false }
});

Also, tried updating the custom replacement function. Didn't worked

const addClassToLinkedMessage = (match) => {
  if (match.getType() === 'phone' && disablePhoneHyperlink) return false;
  const tag = match.buildTag();
  tag.addClass('message-with-linked-url');
  return tag;
};

[rohit-131]

Hey @gregjacobs, can you please look into this issue.

[gregjacobs]

Hey @rohit-131, apologies on the delayed response.

It's actually not Autolinker that is linking phone numbers in this case. Safari on iOS links phone numbers found on web pages by default.

Here's a Stack Overflow link on how to disable this Safari behavior though: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/226131/how-to-disable-phone-number-linking-in-mobile-safari. Adding the following meta tag to your page is probably the easiest solution from that thread:

<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no">

Best,
Greg