feat(mobile): long-press a web link for the iOS link menu

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What Changed

Long-pressing a web link in a chat message on iOS now opens the standard iOS link menu: Open Link, Add to Reading List, Copy Link, and Share, with the live page preview (or the compact URL card after "Hide preview").

Web link runs set their real URL as the text view's link attribute, so UIKit builds the menu and preview itself. The change is a linkUrl prop on T3MarkdownTextRun, set only for http(s) runs.

• A normal tap still goes through the app's link handler via primaryActionForTextItem, so media and file links keep opening in place.
• File references keep their existing custom menu, since a run with a context menu still gets the placeholder t3-markdown-run:// URL.
• Open Link from the menu is UIKit's own action, so a link to a PDF or video opens in Safari from the menu but in the in-app viewer on tap.
• Clients: iOS only. Android passes the prop to a plain Text and ignores it, same as contextMenuConfig today. Web and desktop already have the browser's link menu.

Why

On iOS, long-pressing a web link only started a text selection. There was no way to copy, share, or open a link without selecting its text by hand.

Verified on an iOS 27 simulator against a copy of real thread data: long-press menu, Open Link, Share, Copy Link, and plain tap.

UI Changes

Before	After	After, preview hidden

Long-press opens the menu, Copy Link closes it, then a normal tap opens the link through the app (MP4):

Checklist

• This PR is small and focused
• I explained what changed and why
• I included before/after screenshots for any UI changes
• I included a video for animation/interaction changes

Made with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code (running inside T3 Code).

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • External links in selectable Markdown text now respond to taps through their associated action handlers. Other text continues to use standard iOS behavior, and links remain available for selection and interaction within the text.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds UIKit link previews and copy/share/open actions to long-presses on existing iOS web links, while also changing gesture routing for those links. Because it introduces user-facing behavior on an existing production path and delegates new actions to UIKit, the change warrants human review.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

External-host URLs now pass to native Markdown text runs. On iOS, web links receive link attributes, are excluded from gesture selection, and route iOS 17 text-item taps through the run’s onPress handler.

Changes

Native Markdown web links

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pass link URLs to native runs apps/mobile/modules/t3-markdown-text/src/MarkdownTextPrimitive.tsx, apps/mobile/modules/t3-markdown-text/src/T3MarkdownTextRunNativeComponent.ts, apps/mobile/modules/t3-markdown-text/src/NativeMarkdownSelectableText.tsx, apps/mobile/modules/t3-markdown-text/ios/T3MarkdownTextRun.h, apps/mobile/modules/t3-markdown-text/ios/T3MarkdownTextRun.mm	The native props and run expose a link URL. External-host runs pass their href, and the native run stores and returns the parsed URL.
Apply native link handling apps/mobile/modules/t3-markdown-text/ios/T3MarkdownText.mm	Runs with context menus or web URLs receive link attributes. Gesture selection skips both kinds of runs. On iOS 17, web-link taps use the run’s onPress handler.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant NativeMarkdownSelectableText
  participant T3MarkdownTextRun
  participant T3MarkdownText
  NativeMarkdownSelectableText->>T3MarkdownTextRun: Pass external href as linkUrl
  T3MarkdownTextRun->>T3MarkdownText: Provide parsed linkURL
  T3MarkdownText->>T3MarkdownText: Add link attributes and route iOS 17 taps to onPress

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 837a5

The app targets iOS 18, so the reported older-version tap issue does not affect supported app users. No actionable merge blocker remains.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 837a5

On iOS, long-pressing a web link can now show a live preview and open the link through the system menu rather than the app’s usual tap behavior. The change is limited to web links in mobile text, and ordinary taps still use the app’s handler.

Retained concerns

• Low · security · inferred: For external web links, the default iOS long-press menu and preview handle the URL outside the app’s tap callback. Open Link can therefore take a different path from an ordinary tap, including for media links the app would display in its own viewer. This is a handling and potential privacy boundary to assess, not evidence of a verified exploit.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The newly reachable system-menu path is confined by the examined producer to HTTP or HTTPS links rendered by the iOS markdown component. The reviewed changes do not establish a new server or credential authority.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A link embedded in rendered markdown can reach the system preview and default menu on long press without invoking onLinkPress. No credential disclosure or other concrete exploit was established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The normal markdown producer checks the parsed URL scheme before marking a run external. The iOS run itself parses the supplied string as an NSURL without a further scheme check. Primary text-item actions still call the run’s onPress handler; the default menu does not.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — If consistent in-app handling or preview privacy is required, make the system menu’s preview and Open Link behavior an explicit policy choice rather than assuming the tap callback governs them.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: 1 …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: enabling the iOS link menu when users long-press web links.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes complete What Changed and Why sections, documents the iOS-specific behavior and testing, and provides the required screenshots, interaction video, and completed checklist.

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Explanation

Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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In `@apps/mobile/modules/t3-markdown-text/ios/T3MarkdownText.mm`:
- Line 678: Add the older `textView:shouldInteractWithURL:inRange:` delegate
path so external-link runs invoke `onPress` and return NO to suppress UIKit’s
default URL action on iOS versions below 17. Use `childForCharacterRange:` to
find the run, and preserve existing iOS 17 behavior and default handling for
runs without an external `linkURL` or with a context menu.

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