31 March, 2020

iPhone: Copy Phone Numbers Without Spaces

If you save a number in your iPhone, it has this brain dead "feature" where it will add spaces to the number for you. 12345678 is displayed as 1234 5678, and if you try and copy the number, no matter what you do, it'll copy as 1234 5678. Now what's the point of putting spaces in phone numbers? Which system uses these spaces? Do you want to put spaces in emails too?

What's the problem with spaces? I'll tell you. In forms and fields with only exactly enough space for a phone number, the last digit gets cut off because of the completely unnecessary space. The number is now 1234 567.

Fortunately, I've found a solution. If you use an email field (or even custom fields, I guess), it treats the numbers exactly as entered and doesn't molest them. This is the equivalent of forcing a cell in Excel as text format.

YES EXACTLY:

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