# Paste URL into selection on mobile

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/paste-url-into-selection-on-mobile/326531
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** mobile
**Created:** [September 14, 2024, 10:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paste-url-into-selection-on-mobile/326531 "2024-09-14T22:24:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![MarcP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/marcp/32/160184_2.png) [@MarcP](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MarcP)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2024, 10:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paste-url-into-selection-on-mobile/326531/1 "2024-09-14T22:24:04Z")

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If I am correct, we used to be able to _select_ text and _paste_ a URL to get a markdown hyperlink, just like on desktop. Did this break recently?

I’m on iOS, Safari.

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### Author: ![Heliosurge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/heliosurge/32/571810_2.png) [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paste-url-into-selection-on-mobile/326531/2 "2024-09-15T00:49:46Z")

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Can you post more details and maybe a pic to help make things clearer.

By hyper link do you mean something like this?

[Link to your Op Post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paste-url-into-selection-on-mobile/326531)

In the composer click on this

 ![Link to your Op Post (https://paste.url/into_selection on- mobile/326531?u=heliosurge) In the composer click on this. (Captioned by AI)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/0/8/70825d10f5072024d54ff38dcf03756e21ad7402.jpeg)

To create a hyper link.

Or posting link say in the topic title?

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### Author: ![MarcP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/marcp/32/160184_2.png) [@MarcP](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MarcP)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2024, 2:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paste-url-into-selection-on-mobile/326531/3 "2024-09-15T14:36:05Z")

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“Paste URL into selection” works exactly how you read it:

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/3/9/83922e8899763a99ae8abc38f5e8ecd0b68b66d4.png)

U select [some](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paste-url-into-selection-on-mobile/326531/2) text and **paste** a **URL**  **into** that **selection** 🙂

This works on desktop just fine, but it broke recently on mobile.

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### Author: ![Heliosurge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/heliosurge/32/571810_2.png) [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2024, 6:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paste-url-into-selection-on-mobile/326531/4 "2024-09-15T18:20:28Z")

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Thank you. I wasn’t aware of that method to create one. Typically have been making them the more manual way. Lol

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### Author: ![Vaping\_Community](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/vaping_community/32/89248_2.png) [@Vaping\_Community](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vaping_Community)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2024, 8:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paste-url-into-selection-on-mobile/326531/5 "2024-09-15T20:09:21Z")

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Works on the discourse hub app..

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### Author: ![MarcP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/marcp/32/160184_2.png) [@MarcP](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MarcP)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2024, 8:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paste-url-into-selection-on-mobile/326531/6 "2024-09-15T20:14:11Z")

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Hmm, currently I can’t repro this myself either.. maybe it was a bug in Safari? I opened the topic right after I wasn’t able to do it here on Meta yesterday.