How to stop Google Keep from seeing numeric data as phone numbers?
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Google Keep on Android seems to convert arbitrary numeric data into clickable phone numbers. Any sequence of 5 or more digits, with differing punctuation seems to trigger it. I seem to have triggered this a lot so far and not once have I actually typed a phone number! This is proving to be quite problematic. The hypertext'd numbers are too easy to tap, particularly when you are going back to edit that text, which then transports you away to the dialer! Most annoying.
Is there any way to prevent the app from doing this?
**UPDATE:** I installed the update to 1.0.79 today but there is no change in this behaviour yet. In fact I can't see that _anything_ has changed with this update?! Possibly bug fixes I guess, but nothing new is listed in the official change log either?!
However, this over zealous hyperlinking of numbers is more prevalent than I first thought... the default text messaging app does it as well - so I guess they share a common text-element?

Asked by MrWhite
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Apr 1, 2013, 01:13 AM
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