Guide To Turn Off iOS 13 Safari Link Preview On iPad and iPhone

Saanvi Araav


While this new Safari Link Preview feature could be somewhat helpful to those who would like to peek at the website, some find it a bit irksome. 

The new iOS 13's Safari brings along some fantastic features such as download manager and automatically close all tabs option. However, one of the less attractive features is the new webpages link preview. While this new feature could be somewhat helpful to those who would like to peek at the website, some find it a bit irksome.

For example, some only want to long-press on a certain link to copy it, rather than previewing it. Luckily, there is a pretty straightforward way to disable this link preview feature on your Safari on iPad and iPhone.

More importantly, you could do these tips and tricks right from your browser without having to get to the app Settings.

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Here is how you can turn Link Preview off

1. Launch Safari on your iPad or iPhone.

Open Safari (to turn off Link Preview)

2. Then, go to any website that has a hyperlink. After that, press the link until the action sheet appears with the webpage preview for that link.

Press the link until the action sheet appears with the webpage link preview

3. Then, from the action sheet, select the option Hide Link Previews.

Select the option Hide Link Previews

4. That is all for this guide on how to turn off Link Preview if you still use iOS 13.2 or other lower versions. But if your device is running iOs 13.2 or later, then you could find the button Hide Link Previews on the top like in the below picture.

You could also find the button Hide Link Preview on the top

After that, when you touch and hold any hyperlink, there will be an action sheet popping up with the URL. Just press it, and it will get you to the destination webpage. Later on, if you want to turn link preview feature back on, just follow steps 1&2 and choose the button Show Link Previews.

It locates in different locations according to your iOS 13 version

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