How to Preview Links in Chrome for Android
You can access the link preview feature from Chrome’s context menu. Here’s how you do this:
- Open a webpage where you have a link in Chrome on your Android device.
- Instead of tapping the link, tap and hold on the link.
- From the context menu that appears, choosePreview page.
- A pane will open from the bottom covering about 75 percent of your screen. This pane shows the webpage behind your tapped link.
- You can close this pane by tappingXin the top-right of the pane.
- If you want to open the link for this webpage, tap the link icon near the X.
How to preview Links in iPhone
Good part is that Apple allows to preview links in iPhone by default. This feature will work on all default iPhone apps like Mail, Safari, Messages, etc.
- Open an email or website inSafari appthat has a hyperlink.
- Press the link and long hold. You can even tap on the shortcuts on the Safari app home page and long hold.
- It will show you the link preview like below.
- Once you find the destination link is legitimate, you can tap on the preview open the webpage in full view.
- Alternatively, you can simply swipe the preview down or tap on other place to close the preview and continue your work.
When previewing link in iPhone, you will see a context menu with different options depending upon the app. You can copy, share, add to reading list and open the URL in Safari using this context menu.
