I have turned of all kinds of text replacement settings, but for whatever reason, I have one contact that if I try to write their email address inside Messages I get a magical blue text transformation to just their name (now blue and capitalized). Their email address happens to contain their name after the @. Only contact that does this and makes me want to throw my Macbook sometimes. Screengrab video attached to better illustrate.
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Messages corrects @ name to just name, how to fix?
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I have turned of all kinds of text replacement settings, but for whatever reason, I have one contact that if I try to write their email address inside Messages I get a magical blue text transformation to just their name (now blue and capitalized). Their email address happens to contain their name after the @. Only contact that does this and makes me want to throw my Macbook sometimes. Screengrab video attached to better illustrate.
It is a direct mention feature. Tanner is your contact name, the one you chat with, and when you type @Tanner in this conversation, iMessage is supposed to send them a notification. Mostly used in group chats.
No idea how to turn that off permanently, but from what I can see, it can be easily corrected back: type "tanner@tanner", press m, so that you get that "tannerTannerm" thing, then press backspace twice so that it corrects itself to "tanner@tanner", and when you type m again, it does not correct it this time, so you can type the email address.
No idea how to turn that off permanently, but from what I can see, it can be easily corrected back: type "tanner@tanner", press m, so that you get that "tannerTannerm" thing, then press backspace twice so that it corrects itself to "tanner@tanner", and when you type m again, it does not correct it this time, so you can type the email address.
Thanks so much for at least giving me a name for the behavior!
I have been doing the correction, sometimes it autocorrects a couple of times before it sticks by which time the little vein on my forehead looks like it's about to rupture.
There's bound to be a way to term off mentions. Hmmmm. At least I know WHAT to investigate now. Thank you so much!
I have been doing the correction, sometimes it autocorrects a couple of times before it sticks by which time the little vein on my forehead looks like it's about to rupture.
There's bound to be a way to term off mentions. Hmmmm. At least I know WHAT to investigate now. Thank you so much!
Oh yeah! Now using Messages on Sonoma THERE IS NO WAY TO CORRECT THIS! See movie.
Only workaround is to just include some other character after the @. No matter how I try to correct its conversion to a mention (delete, inserting a character, etc) it will just continuously replace the text. This is the dumbest UI thing I think I've seen in 35+ years of using Mac OS (first Mac a Mac Plus w/ 1MB of RAM). It is essentially impossible to type an email address if the person's name is in first part of the domain.
Only workaround is to just include some other character after the @. No matter how I try to correct its conversion to a mention (delete, inserting a character, etc) it will just continuously replace the text. This is the dumbest UI thing I think I've seen in 35+ years of using Mac OS (first Mac a Mac Plus w/ 1MB of RAM). It is essentially impossible to type an email address if the person's name is in first part of the domain.