iOS - URLs are hyperlinked instead of hyperlink text when edit message

[lanitochka17]

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Version Number: 1.4.36-1
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: https://expensify.testrail.io/index.php?/tests/view/4280657
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team
Slack conversation:

Action Performed:

1. Log in to New Expensify
2. Nagivate to any chat
3. Send a hyperilnk using format, e. g.: hyperlink text
4. Edit sent message

Expected Result:

Hyperlink text should be hyperlinked to reflect what the message would look like when sent, as Live Markdown Preview has been implemented

Actual Result:

The URL is hyperlinked instead of the text

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

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Bug6367961_1707149152060.TJZW5811.mp4

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @thienlnam (Engineering), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/9980/ for more details.

[lanitochka17]

We think that this bug might be related to #vip-vsp
CC @quinthar

[mountiny]

Not a blocker imho, seems like this works fine, just needs a bit of a polish.

cc @tomekzaw also related to the markdown

[tomekzaw]

+1, we decided to keep the current way of formatting for now and iterate on it later on

[thienlnam]

Closing since this is working as designed