One problem with both Android, and Ios: impossible to disable automatic previews Send yourself a link by SMS, or some popular messenger like Whatsapp. Your ph

One problem with both Android, and Ios: impossible to disable automatic previews Send yourself a link by SMS, or some popular messenger like Whatsapp. Your phone will automatically make you a browser page preview, and in the process run every browser exploit available. Google added an extremely well hidden option to disable it it Messages few versions ago. Since there is no way to be sure Google does not remove it, and add some kind of another autoplay like feature in the future, I just replaced the SMS app altogether to one which does not peek into my conversations https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplemobiletools.smsmessenger https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplemobi... (google straight tells they can get a copy of your SMSes as per their disclaimer if you use Google Messages for "improving service")