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Automatic underlining of a celebrity's name on iOS
Hey boys and girls! I recently detected, on email preview tests, that firstname and lastname of celebrities were automatically underlined on iOS. Has anyone ever heard of this?
I found (at least I think) a beginning of explanation: it only applies to celebrities with a Youtube, Deezer, Spotify or TuneIn account. If we try with Donald Trump or Denzel Washington, no underlining. But with Thom Yorke or Bruce Springsteen, there is underlining! Did you know that?
@Remi Parmentier -
Would that solution also affect addresses, telephone numbers, etc?
I generally like to leave these intact where possible - I feel like hyperlinking a phone number is a useful feature that users understand and come to expect. Hyperlinking Bruce Springsteen, not so much...
Hello Thomas,
This is a feature of Apple Mail on iOS probably since iOS 10. But you're right in the way that this is not very documented. Apple Mail creates automatic links towards certain contents available on iTunes. So as you noticed, mostly singers or bands. Clicking on the link created opens a popup with previews of available content. Here's an example.
As far as I know, there is no proper way to prevent this. However, you can hide it and prevent the links to be clickable. Apple adds a
x-apple-data-detectors="true"attribute on each created link. So you can add the following styles in the<head>of your email to hide this.@Rémi Parmentier : ♬ YOU'RE SIMPLY THE BEST!!!!! (tam tam taaaaaam tam) BETTER THAN ALL THE REST!!! (tam tam taaaam tam) ♫ :D