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iPhone Inserting Links Into Emails... (to BONO?)
Has anyone come across this?
I'm testing a mail. It mentions a "pro bono office" and on iPhone (using iOS 10.3.1) the word Bono is hyperlinked. Clicking on it gives.. yes - an Apple search results page full of information about U2 and Bono. My colleague gets the same result.
You can see a couple of screenshots on this outraged tweet:
https://twitter.com/behlingdj/status/869555028377432064
It turns out that linking 'pro bono' to somewhere else overrides the iPhone's meddling. But I'm still concerned. Is this new behviour that I just haven't noticed before? Are there other terms being turned into links to complete non-sequiturs?
I had a similar thing with Taylor Swift! Seems certain key words are so "important/relevant" that the email client decides that the user is interested in going where it wants them to and not where the sender does!
I insert the zero-width non-joiner into troublesome words and this removes the auto-links.
ha, that's just as bad! Thanks for the tip on the zwnj - will try that in future; it's a bit simpler than finding a link each time.
I'm still concerned as to where all this is going to end up though. How many other search terms? (Maybe it's just pop stars!)