diff --git a/Tusker/Views/ContentTextView.swift b/Tusker/Views/ContentTextView.swift
index 8f47a1ae..27de5184 100644
--- a/Tusker/Views/ContentTextView.swift
+++ b/Tusker/Views/ContentTextView.swift
@@ -270,8 +270,9 @@ class ContentTextView: LinkTextView, BaseEmojiLabel {
 
 extension ContentTextView: UITextViewDelegate {
     func textView(_ textView: UITextView, shouldInteractWith URL: URL, in characterRange: NSRange, interaction: UITextItemInteraction) -> Bool {
-        // disable the text view's link interactions, we handle tapping links ourself with a gesture recognizer
-        return false
+        // generally disable the text view's link interactions, we handle tapping links ourself with a gesture recognizer
+        // the builtin data detectors use the x-apple-data-detectors scheme, and we allow the text view to handle those itself
+        return URL.scheme == "x-apple-data-detectors"
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/Tusker/Views/Status/ConversationMainStatusTableViewCell.swift b/Tusker/Views/Status/ConversationMainStatusTableViewCell.swift
index e861e721..ee447bcb 100644
--- a/Tusker/Views/Status/ConversationMainStatusTableViewCell.swift
+++ b/Tusker/Views/Status/ConversationMainStatusTableViewCell.swift
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ class ConversationMainStatusTableViewCell: BaseStatusTableViewCell {
         ]
         
         contentTextView.defaultFont = .systemFont(ofSize: 18)
+        contentTextView.dataDetectorTypes = [.flightNumber, .address, .shipmentTrackingNumber, .phoneNumber]
+        if #available(iOS 16.0, *) {
+            contentTextView.dataDetectorTypes.formUnion([.money, .physicalValue])
+        }
         
         profileDetailContainerView.addInteraction(UIContextMenuInteraction(delegate: self))