Cannot edit blue hyperlinked text in Samsung Notes

When you’re writing a note in Samsung Notes, you might notice that certain things like numbers, emails, URLs, dates, times, and addresses appear in blue. These blue items are automatically recognized as hyperlinks, which means they can’t be edited directly. But don’t worry—Samsung Notes has a feature to help you edit them! 
Samsung Notes on a Galaxy phone showing a hyperlink highlighted with editing options.
Samsung Notes on a Galaxy phone showing a hyperlink highlighted with editing options.

Cannot edit blue hyperlinked text in Samsung Notes

How to edit hyperlinked text

 Here’s how you can edit content that has a hyperlink:

  1. Touch and hold the blue hyperlinked text you want to edit.
    A link highlighted in Samsung Notes on a Galaxy phone with a blue selection handle.
  2. You’ll see a handler appear around the text.
    Samsung Notes on a Galaxy phone with a link selected and editing options Cut, Copy, Paste, Translate.
  3. Use the handler to adjust the part of the text you want to edit.
    Samsung Notes on a Galaxy phone with a link selected showing the option to Open, Cut, Copy, or Paste.
  4. Once you’ve selected the text, you can edit it as usual.
    Samsung Notes on a Galaxy phone with the Open option highlighted for a selected hyperlink.


This feature makes it easy to change or update any hyperlinked content in your notes!

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How to turn off the hyperlink feature

If you don’t like the hyperlink feature and want to turn it off, here’s how:

  1. Open Samsung Notes, and then tap the Menu (the three horizontal lines) icon in the upper left side of the screen.
    Samsung Notes app on a Galaxy phone showing the More options menu with Settings highlighted.
  2. Tap Settings, and then swipe and turn off the switch next to the option that says “Show Links in note."
    Samsung Notes settings on a Galaxy phone with Show links in notes toggle turned off.

 

This will stop Samsung Notes from automatically recognizing and highlighting certain text as hyperlinks.

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