This feature may come in handy to those users who use Skype as their primary calling way through their Windows. But there may be some who may want to disable this functionality because accidentally clicking on these phone numbers takes you to Skype, which may interrupt your browsing. In this article, I’ll show you how to disable the automatic phone number detection by IE 11:
Disable Phone Number Detection in IE 11
Press Windows Key + R combination, type put gpedit.msc in Run dialog box and hit Enter to open the Local Group Policy Editor.
In the left pane, navigate here:
In the right pane, look for the setting named Turn off phone number detection and double click on this setting to get this:
In the above-shown window, click on Enabled. Click Apply followed by OK. Here is what you need to know about this policy:
Enable the same setting for the user side as well: You may now close the Group Policy Editor and reboot the machine to get results. In case you want to revert the changes i.e. to allow phone number detection, you can set the same policy to Not Configured or Disabled status and IE 11 will again inspect phone numbers for you. That’s it!
