Disable telephone number detection on iPad desktop web links?

Question

I\'m developing a web application that will be launched from a desktop icon on an iPad as a full-screen application. The Apple documentation on phone links recommends using

Answer 1

The meta tag will work:

It's the Safari browser not showing your updated page correctly. Make some other text change to the page and refresh and the changes will appear. Just adding the meta tag will still show the page with the number interpreted as a telephone number if you already viewed it that way.