Adding a call-to-phone link

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Many of you may have already noticed that Gmail changes the phone number in a clickable link, regardless of your opinion. This can also happen with iOS and other email clients.

You can add a link directly to a call-to-phone link and prevent automatic activation, with the ability to customize the text as well.

You can skip directly to a video at the end of this article, showing all the steps we’ll go through below.

Adding a clickable call-to-phone link to your email signature

First, select the text where you’d like to add the link to. After that, an options menu will open. Next, click on the “Add a link” icon, as you can see below:

IMPORTANT: To insert a custom color into a link, you must select all the text.

The second step is to add the link with the “tel:(your number here)” code.

If your number is similar to +55 (11) 4444-2222, you should add “tel:551144442222”, removing all spaces and special characters.

Here’s an example.

Click add, save, and send a test email message.

Considerations

• It’s possible to add a phone link to icons;
• If you are using Google Mail, Hangouts phone calls will open;
• This works for Gmail and modern email clients. We imagine that this feature does not work with any of Microsoft Outlook’s versions.

Preventing text color change in Gmail

To prevent Gmail and many other email clients from changing the link’s color in your email signature, you’ll need to choose a standard color for the signature right after adding the link.

Here’s a complete video showing all steps. Please, note that the end color was changed to Black. This prevents Gmail from changing the color of the link to Blue.

All done! If you still have any questions, please write us a comment or get in touch with our support team.

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