# Phone input allows the use of letters **URL:** \ **Category:** Report a Bug\ **Created:** [February 25, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/phone-input-allows-the-use-of-letters/80341 "2025-02-25T17:34:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MaximeBaker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/maximebaker/32/80877_2.png) [@MaximeBaker](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MaximeBaker)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/phone-input-allows-the-use-of-letters/80341/1 "2025-02-25T17:34:30Z")
Phone input should only allow numbers and the characters “-()+”. Currently, it permits letters as well. ---
**Author:** ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/phone-input-allows-the-use-of-letters/80341/2 "2025-02-25T18:22:55Z")
I’ve always thought this was strange. ---
**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 12:36am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/phone-input-allows-the-use-of-letters/80341/3 "2025-02-26T00:36:30Z")
> **[Phoneword](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoneword)** > > Phonewords are mnemonic phrases represented as alphanumeric equivalents of a telephone number. In many countries, the digits on the telephone keypad also have letters assigned. By replacing the digits of a telephone number with the corresponding letters, it is sometimes possible to form a whole or partial word, an acronym, abbreviation, or some other alphanumeric combination. > Phonewords are the most common vanity numbers, although a few all-numeric vanity phone numbers are used. Toll-free teleph... I wonder if it’s because of this. This isn’t a thing in my country, but I have seen US businesses using it all the time. ---
**Author:** ![MaximeBaker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/maximebaker/32/80877_2.png) [@MaximeBaker](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MaximeBaker)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/phone-input-allows-the-use-of-letters/80341/4 "2025-02-26T00:51:31Z")
Could make sense. But logical, phone **numbers** are… Numbers 😂 ---
**Author:** ![MaximeBaker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/maximebaker/32/80877_2.png) [@MaximeBaker](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MaximeBaker)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/phone-input-allows-the-use-of-letters/80341/5 "2025-02-26T00:52:57Z")
Why have a phone input if it functions the same as a text input? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 4:58am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/phone-input-allows-the-use-of-letters/80341/6 "2025-02-26T04:58:20Z")
So if the phone input only accepts numbers, how would I enter `1234 5678 ext 456`? 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![MaximeBaker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/maximebaker/32/80877_2.png) [@MaximeBaker](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MaximeBaker)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/phone-input-allows-the-use-of-letters/80341/7 "2025-02-26T14:11:38Z")
Didn’t think about that… You are right! Phone input are really weird then. It is literally a text input in this case. Lol. Well, it means that phone input are completely useless then! 😂 ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/phone-input-allows-the-use-of-letters/80341/8 "2025-02-26T14:46:58Z")
There types of html input that enforce a numeric keyboard for number entry and phone input for phone entry, instead of a full keyboard. I seem to recall the iOS keyboard not working correctly for either numeric or phone input several years back. Maybe at one point it did trigger just a numeric or phone keyboard, but Glide backed away from that for various reasons and the entry component stuck around??? Does still seem weird that there is a specific phone input that doesn’t do anything special that I can tell. > **[W3Schools.com](https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_form_input_types.asp)** > > W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. Covering popular subjects like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, and many, many more. ![1000004719](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/9/8/983c02d0fd1ef7afc0d57c2b51497f8e3af30702.jpeg) ![1000004718](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/1/9/19b6d44d54df83d85dc370544e95d1314c30d967.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/system/32/53398_2.png) [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/phone-input-allows-the-use-of-letters/80341/9 "2025-08-25T14:47:08Z")
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