Remove automatic link formatting when pasting email addresses and links

Hey @dvaliao,
Things like this make it so clear that while I have been thinking of figma as a product, it’s actually a situationist prank. I guess the giveaway should be the use of the phrase “we’ve merged your idea with an existing, similar feature request,” with no mention of which request, or any way to track the “request,” on a thread peppered with users having the same issue for several years. You got me, I fell for it! I probably should have recognized the phrase from the Terry Gilliam film Brazil, but it’s been years since I watched it so I just didn’t catch it.

We hear you, @Ryan_Hoguet. Sorry for the frustration!

To be completely transparent, our team is only here for moderation purposes, as the forums are primarily run by the community. We pass along feedback to the appropriate teams, prioritize features, and gauge interest from the community through Votes.

This particular feature request only has 17 votes. There are ~6 other feature requests with +800 votes that our developers are prioritizing right now.

We can’t promise an exact timeframe for most requests, because our team here isn’t given a roadmap. Rest-assured that we ensure that the right teams are aware of community feedback, and our moderation team here will do our best to keep you updated as well.

Hi,

Is anything being done with this? At least give us a feature to disable hyperlinks being automatically created on emails and links, it is extremely frustrating while working… thanks

Hey @Phil_J,

This particular feature request only has 21 votes from the community. As mentioned 2 days ago, there are ~6 other feature requests with +800 votes that our developers are prioritizing right now. As new features are released, we hope to be able to provide a better timeline in the future.

Definitely + 1 for this. Even a shortcut to paste without formatting would be appreciated.

Meanwhile for everyone similarly annoyed by this as me, quick workaround is to add a space at the end of the address. Not ideal but seems to work.

E-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y annoying. I have just asked the whole design department to upvote this thread.

this is hella annoying. pls fix.

Please Figma team, let user switch off in settings automatic link formatting when pasting text that look like emails address, this is just more than annoying and creates too much of extra work for editing text back from link into simple text. Thank you.

Hey @Victoria_K,

Thanks for the feedback! We’ve merged your topic with an existing one, so our team can track and monitor interest from the community in one space. Be sure to Vote up top if you haven’t already! ☝️

I have to copy over tonnes of data into prototypes and this includes emails. If I grab them from one area in my designs and copy them to another it pastes as a link which is very tedious to remove, especially when you have to do it every time. My alternative option is to right click, copy as text, right click paste as text anytime I want to copy an email. Which can be tens or hundreds of times… It’s driving me nuts.