Hide blue links in Apple Mail

Article author
Miguel Panayotty

You may have seen dates, times, phone numbers, addresses, and URLs in emails turn into blue links on iOS devices. This behavior may be handy to the subscriber opening the email, but when blue links are interfering with your branding, you may be less inclined to keep them. There’s a workaround to hide blue links in your email for Apple Mail. Follow these steps.

 

Hiding blue links in Apple Mail

 

1. Click on the HTML tab in the lower left corner

 

2. Add the code below and inside the style tag, above the closing </style>

In the HTML, use `CTRL+F` to search for 'Media query resets'. Scroll down to the closing </style> tag in this section. Add a return above the closing </style> tag. Paste in the code below.

 

a[x-apple-data-detectors] {
color: inherit !important;
text-decoration: none !important;
font-size: inherit !important;
font-family: inherit !important;
font-weight: inherit !important;
line-height: inherit !important;
}


Example

 

3. Save your email

 

4. Send a test email to Apple Mail and confirm the blue links are gone