Phone Number on website showing up blue on an iPhone

Question

I don't have an iPhone, but my client is telling me that the phone number (on the website I made for him) turns blue on his iPhone. What's the best way to remedy this?

Note: It's not a link on my website, but the safari browser seems to make it into one

<span>(873)984-0923</span>

Answer 1

add this meta tag:

<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no" />

from the docs: https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#codinghowtos/Mobile/UserExperience/_index.html