links intermittently do not open with the rotor links action

I'm not sure if this is a voiceover problem or something with the links that I'm trying to open or perhaps I'm not doing something right but I'm finding intermittently the links action on the rotor will not open links. For example today I had a telehealth doctors visit. They text you a link and you have to open it to connect. Today I could not get the link to open. The last time I had a telehealth visit I was able to open this link. Another example is when I was working with a verizon rep, he text me a few links, some would open and some would not. The way I am opening links in the messages app is I double tap on the conversation to open it up, change the rotor to links, and then swipe down until I hear the link and double tap on it. Sometimes it opens and sometimes it doesn't.
i'm using IOS16.1 with an IPhone SE3.
Thanks