How to stop numbers being converted to links on mobile

2 Jun

On Apple iOS devices (iPhones and iPads), Safari will try to automatically detect phone numbers in a webpage and then convert them into hyperlinks. It does this by detecting strings formatted like a phone number and it converts each one into a link that calls the number. This can be very helpful, but it can sometimes be a little over enthusiastic and underline numbers that aren’t phone numbers!

You can disable this behaviour on a specific page of your Squarespace website, or on your entire site, by adding an Apple-specific meta tag.

Disabling phone number detection on an entire site

To disable it on the entire website, add the following to the header panel within Code Injection:

  
    <!--- Stop iOS detecting telephone numbers --------->
<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no">

Disabling phone number detection on a single page

If you’d prefer to disable this on specific pages, you can add the same meta tag to the per-page code injection panel for the specific pages that you want to affect. You’ll find this in the Settings panel for the specific page or pages.