Operating system
Android
Joplin version
3.6.18
Editor
Markdown Editor
What issue do you have?
Ive been using Joplin for ~2 weeks, but last week i had an question pop-up in the bottom of the app asking something about "Markdown" like "enable or disable" and i accidentaly hit it as i was in a hurry. Also typical and stupid to promt the user about such things so you can miss click it...
Now my phone numbers inside < > is no longer hyperlinks but normal text. URL's are still hyperlinks but i tried enabling all settings, and disabling all settings without any luck.
Did anything in the application recently like ~1-2 weeks. ChatGPT said:
´The previous version auto-recognized anything in angle brackets <...> as a URL/URI.´
´The update may have changed the auto-linking behavior.´
Any help are greatly appreciated since i use the app in my work.
Tried applying one of my notes into ColorNote and immediately the phone numbers are clickable hyperlinks again. https://www. links are still hyperlinks inside Joplin, but phone numbers inside <+number> stopped working as of the latest update + accidental pop-up i clicked on in the bottom.
Tried re-installing the application without it working. And tried installing on my private phone, but same there. 
You can turn off the setting you accidentally enabled on the popup, by going to configuration, editor, and disabling this setting: 'Markdown editor: Render markup in editor'.
On another note, if you reinstalled the app, then didn't you get that popup again and have to opportunity to read and apply it properly?
@mrjo118 Yes but that did not work. 
Yes i installed it again, also on another private Android device. But the problem persist, phone numbers inside <+number> is not clickable hyperlinks in the newer version. Can you verify it works on your(s)? I have two different phones here and no longer works on any of them. But it worked just fine ~1 week ago.
Do you have an example of formats where this was working as autolinks?
I tested an older joplin version (3.5) and I don't see any auto-linking happening for phone numbers in either the editor (with or without render markup) or the viewer (and I do have the linkify extension enabled) :
yes i see that i have some of my "old" notes in Trash still even though i re-installed the app. And it looks like this (blurring sensitive info)
2026-05-15 (working)
2026-05-18 (today not working)
It seems to be working here in both the editor and the viewer:
Note that the latest mobile version does have a change where instead of always defaulting to the viewer (where links are followable), it now defaults to whatever view you last used (editor or viewer).
You might be in the editor view (where links aren't followable on mobile). To get followable links in the editor, you can install the extra markdown editor settings plugin and enable the link tool tip setting.
alternately, you can click the book icon on the top-right to switch to the viewer.
@bwat47 Tried
Installing the Markdown extra plugin
And switching between the "pen" and the "book" icons in the Editor View. But there is not any change. If i view my old "Trash" note from 15th i see the phone numbers as hyperlinks/clickable. But any newer ones get created as standard text still.
Are there any other settings, or a "App default settings reset" in case something happened to my Android profile.
If some notes still show them as links, that indicates that there's a difference in the formatting/content in the notes where its working vs the ones where it isn't working.
In the notes exhibiting the problem is it possible that the angle brackets somehow got backslash escaped?, e.g: \<tel:+46701234567\>
Note: Backslash escapes will be hidden in the markdown viewer, and if you have render markup enabled, backslash escapes will be hidden in the editor unless your cursor is on that line
@bwat47 I do exactly as i been doing the past week when it worked everyday ~5 times/day.
Last time it was working was 15th so 15/5, then i got the tooltip in the bottom of the application UI and that i accidentally clicked on. Then it stopped working,
Even though i have re-installed the old Notes that was working was as you saw on my pictures still intact. But i installed the Joplin app on my private phone which is a "100% fresh installation" and it is not working there either, so im guessing something with the latest update broken the < >, because the normal webpage is hyperlinked but none of the phone numbers get the correct formatting.
- My old note from 15th is still showing correct in Trash.
- If i copy everything from a non-working note, and paste into ColorNote (another app) i see the phone numbers correct and as hyperlinks. But if i copy paste it back to Joplin it loose the phone number hyperlinks.
I also cant seem to find where you switch "Editor" i just have the default plain Editor as an option in the top 'Configuration' inside > Editor >
Tried the Plugin that was tipped higher in the answer post, but were not able to "switch" Editor so it was still not working with another Plugin installed.
Ok now i got it working again!
- Force stopped the Joplin app
- Cleaned Joplin Storage cache
- Cleaned Joplin Temp folder on android
- Cleaned Joplin Storage Data
And then i just installed it from Google Appstore, and when promted i pressed keep markdown enabled.
Thank you so much for your responses, i always hate when applications break during an update or misclicked pop-up. Usually takes lot of time to find out what actually changed and where to find the old settings again, and then remembering what they all were set on.
Maybe a "Lock Configuration" button in the Joplin app would be a good idea?
1). I'm not sure if this is related to any changed setting, from what I can see this style of link (<tel:number>) works in the markdown editor and viewer regardless of whether or not you have render markup enabled (and also does not seem dependent on the linkify setting under under the markdown tab).
EDIT: If you have render markup disabled, the link won't show with an underline in the editor, but still shows as a clickable link in the viewer.
2). To switch between the markdown editor and rich text editor on mobile, you can click the Kebab menu (three dots vertically stacked) on the type right.
If the menu shows an option for "Edit as Rich Text", that means that you're currently in the Markdown editor (and you can switch to the Rich Text editor by tapping Edit as Rich Text).
If the menu shows an option for "Edit as Markdown", that means that you're currently in the Rich Text editor (and you can switch to the Markdown editor by tapping Edit as Markdown).
3). When you're in the Markdown editor, you can switch between the editor and the reading-only view using the other icon on the top right (if it appears as a book, you're currently in the editing mode and tapping the book will switch to the reading view, or if it appears as a pencil, you're currently in the reading view and tapping the pencil will switch to the editing mode).
4). Regarding the extra markdown editor settings plugin, if you enable the plugin's setting for link tooltips, that will make it so that you get a tooltip with a clickable link when you put the cursor inside any link in the markdown editor.
