For iMessage rich links

    iMessage Link Preview Checker

    See the rich link card Apple Messages builds from your og:title and og:image.

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    How iMessage rich links work

    Apple's Messages app turns URLs into rich links: a card showing the page image, its title, and the site's domain. The card is built from standard Open Graph tags — og:title for the headline and og:image for the artwork — so the same metadata that serves Slack or Facebook serves iMessage.

    Unlike most platforms, iMessage does not display og:description. The card is title, image, and hostname, which means og:title carries almost all the weight: front-load it with the words that matter and keep it short enough to survive truncation on a phone-width bubble.

    The preview is generated on the sender's device when the link is typed or pasted, then sent along with the message. Recipients see the sender's fetch, so a link pasted while tags were still wrong keeps its stale card. Apple's fetcher reads server-rendered HTML — metadata injected only by client-side JavaScript will not appear.

    Image size decides the layout. A large landscape og:image (1200×630 works well) renders as a full-width card with the title underneath; if og:image is missing or very small, Messages falls back to a compact row with the site's icon, so it is worth also shipping a good apple-touch-icon and favicon.

    There is no public Apple debugger and previews are cached per device. After fixing tags, append a throwaway query parameter (for example ?v=2) or send the link again once the change is live to see the updated card.

    Common use cases

    Title-first QA

    Check that og:title reads well on its own, since iMessage never shows the description.

    Image fallback checks

    Confirm og:image is large enough for the full-width card rather than the small icon row.

    SMS and support links

    Make appointment, order, and password-reset links render a trustworthy card in Messages.

    Launch-day sharing

    Verify the card before a link is texted around, because each sender's device attaches its own fetch.

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