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bangdel
bangdel

Reputation: 2553

create hyperlink in sms in iPhone

Is it possible to create a hyperlink in an sms in an iPhone?

For example, if I want the word 'foo' hyperlinked in HTML then I'll write <a href="http://foo.com">foo</a> in a normal situation.

If I want to have a certain word in my sms to be hyperlinked to something, is there any way I can do this? Like "I have a <a href="http://foo.com">surprise</a> for you" and the receiver taps on the hyperlinked word 'surprise' which will take the user to the destined page.

Any suggestions as to how this can be done? Examples and samples welcome!

Thanks in advance :)

Upvotes: 12

Views: 54057

Answers (8)

alQemist
alQemist

Reputation: 360

Uhhh this is possible here is a screenshot of an example - I copied a link from email and pasted in a new SMS - though it appears you cannot type html to create a link....enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

rizk.taker
rizk.taker

Reputation: 89

If this helps, I've noticed that a custom hyperlink is possible on the OS X Messages app, but they have to be copied and pasted. To replicate this right click on a hyperlink in your browser and hit copy link. Then paste into Messages.

Upvotes: 0

iCodeSometime
iCodeSometime

Reputation: 1662

No, you can not do this. However you could use tinyurl and format it like this http://[email protected] Web browsers usually ignore anything before an @ therefore you could effectively hide the actual site being linked to, as long as your friend does not know that.

What actually happens is the data before the @ is submitted to the web site in the form username:password. However it must be a site that requires authentication to access, or the site will normally just ignore it.

Upvotes: 0

John
John

Reputation: 21

Use a tiny url from tinyurl. It doesn't allow you to do exactly what you are wanting but it at least can be used to cover up the long link. This is the closest thing I figure out to do. I was wanting to use the "

Upvotes: 2

Raphael Caixeta
Raphael Caixeta

Reputation: 7846

No, you can't do this due to privacy issues. Apple thinks that giving you this ability would allow you to link users to malware and such. Sorry!

Upvotes: 2

Toastor
Toastor

Reputation: 8990

No, you cannot use html tags in sms / text messages. All you can do is insert the URL without the tag. It then depends on the receivers device whether the URL is presented to the user as link or as plain text.

Upvotes: 7

mhutter
mhutter

Reputation: 2916

i don't think it's possible to create hyperlinks in SMS.

The only way is to send an URL, and the iPhone will convert it to a link...

Upvotes: 2

DarkDust
DarkDust

Reputation: 92442

I experimented with exactly this just yesterday. It seems you can't include a nicely formatted hyperlink, unfortunately. I hope to be proven wrong by somebody else, though :-)

However, as you've probably seen yourself, iPhone is able to recognize an URL and you can tap on it to open the URL in Safari (or tap the disclosure button next the message to get more options on what to do with the URL). As far as I can tell the only thing you can do is format your SMS accordingly: "I have a surprise for you: http://foo.com" even though that might spoil the surprise ;-)

Upvotes: 4

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