diff --git a/Tusker/Screens/Compose/MainComposeTextView.swift b/Tusker/Screens/Compose/MainComposeTextView.swift
index 830b3f71..5a162ef3 100644
--- a/Tusker/Screens/Compose/MainComposeTextView.swift
+++ b/Tusker/Screens/Compose/MainComposeTextView.swift
@@ -165,7 +165,9 @@ struct MainComposeWrappedTextView: UIViewRepresentable {
         }
         
         override func paste(_ sender: Any?) {
-            if UIPasteboard.general.contains(pasteboardTypes: CompositionAttachment.readableTypeIdentifiersForItemProvider) {
+            // we deliberately exclude the other CompositionAttachment readable type identifiers, because that's too overzealous with the conversion
+            // and things like URLs end up pasting as attachments
+            if UIPasteboard.general.contains(pasteboardTypes: UIImage.readableTypeIdentifiersForItemProvider) {
                 uiState.delegate?.paste(itemProviders: UIPasteboard.general.itemProviders)
             } else {
                 super.paste(sender)