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Why wouldn't links in messages be clickable? (This is a scam and you obviously shouldn't actually click it, but still)
Anything not in your contact list has no business sending clickable links pretty much. That’s why scammers started asking the scammees to reply to the message and reopen them, because it cut off a significant portion of people falling for scams.
That's a legitimate security benefit, fair enough.
I do get actual businesses sending me SMS notifications with links, and they aren't in my contacts either, but it's a valid decision for Apple to have made in terms of weighing off reducing scams vs creating inconvenience when genuine messages aren't clickable.
On a personal level I'm happy for everything to be clickable on my phone, because I trust myself to be cautious about scams and think carefully about the legitimacy of a message before I click anything.
I think actual business links show up clickable. I’m guessing those businesses either are on my mobile providers not spam list or maybe Apple has their own list of trusted numbers. Not sure.