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“Copy phone number”
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Make an appointment in your calendar with a phone number in the notes and try it from there?
Maybe it’s something my exchange server is adding?
Maybe it’s something my exchange server is adding?
I tried it in fantastical and it was ok. I don’t have my regular stock calendar setup so I couldn’t go that way to test.
I use Airmail rather than then stock mail, but it worked fine in there too.
Is it bias confirmation on my part or are there an unusual amount of Phoenix based members here?
Not seeing it either.
Where I do see it, from time to time, for example, copy the number from a web page. The web page has the html tag for phone (press and will dial number for you). Exchange and other apps/services might be adding the tag in formatted output?
ADD: can see when copying from an email, especially when an email might have been sent in html format.
Where I do see it, from time to time, for example, copy the number from a web page. The web page has the html tag for phone (press and will dial number for you). Exchange and other apps/services might be adding the tag in formatted output?
ADD: can see when copying from an email, especially when an email might have been sent in html format.
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It sounds like it might have to do from where you are copying the number and/or where you are pasting it into.
From stock apps to other stock apps, hence my frustration.
Well, it's not even as simple as just that. Even there it seems that copying from let's say mail or messages and pasting into the dial pad in the phone app or a contacts entry will just paste the number, while pasting it into let's say Safari's address bar will have the leading "tel".
If it was an issue in phone/messages it could be solved by long pressing the number and hitting “call” or “send message” or whatever anyway.
Safari is one of the few that you actually need to paste a number into if you’re looking up someone who called you, for instance.
I just don’t get why the “tel:” should ever enter the clipboard.
I'm SUPER Annoyed by this!!
If I want to copy a number, then paste in the browser, email or in contacts the preceeding "tel:" prefix occurs. I'd like to kick anyone in Craigs team that thought this addition was a good idea.
Seems that if I copy a number then it gets pasted just as number when I paste it into an email or contacts or messages. Only in the browser it gets the "tel" prefix.
I just did a test.
Confirm: “tel” prefix is NOT pasted in Email or messages.
Confirm: “tel” prefix Still is present and pasted into Contacts when creating a new contact and pasting the browser sourced phone number in: Home, Mobile, or iPhone number listings.
This is a regular local (Toronto) 10-digit number. We have 6 of them I think (416/647/289/ the others I’ve yet to use/see).
Apple controls both the hardware and the software. Mail, messages, Safari are all apps under Apple's control. I know you want to say it is because of too many variables but all the variables involved are under Apple's control.
I wasn't trying to say anything, simply posting my observations. Not sure where anything about anything else might be coming from, aside from the possibility that some threads seems to have gotten crossed.
You said, "Well, it's not even as simple as just that", implying it is complicated. Given that the issue in this thread is about stock iOS apps, what are the complications that cause them to not act consistently.
Simply that there appear to be differences between where things copied from and are pasted to. No commentary of it being good or bad or right or wrong or anything else of that sort was involved or even implied anywhere in that.