How to pre-populate the sms body text via an html link

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How to use an html link to open the sms app with a pre-filled body   Everything I have read seems to indicate that sms 18005555555 body bodyTextHere  Should work  but on the iPhone  this doesn t work  If I take out the  body bodyTextHere  and just use sms phonenumber  it works   I have seen several instances where QR codes do this through a safari link  How are they able to pre-populate the body text

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The iPhone doesn t accept any message text  it will only take in the phone number  You can see this here https   developer apple com library ios featuredarticles iPhoneURLScheme Reference SMSLinks SMSLinks html   apple ref doc uid TP40007899-CH7-SW1

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There is not need for two separate anchor tags for Android and iOS  This should help      Without Contact Number  lt a href  sms   amp body message  gt Text Message lt  a gt      With Contact Number  lt a href  sms 1234567890   amp body message  gt Text Message lt  a gt      Works on both Android and iOS

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I suspect in most applications you won t know who to text  so you only want to fill the text body  not the number  That works as you d expect by just leaving out the number - here s what the URLs look like in that case   sms  body message   For iOS same thing except with the    sms  body message   Here s an example of the code I use to set up the SMS   var ua   navigator userAgent toLowerCase    var url   if  ua indexOf  iphone    gt  -1    ua indexOf  ipad    gt  -1     url    sms  body     encodeURIComponent  I m at     mapUrl           pos Address   else    url    sms  body     encodeURIComponent  I m at     mapUrl           pos Address       location href   url

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We found a proposed method and tested    lt a href  sms 12345678 body Hello my friend  gt Send SMS lt  a gt    Here are the results    iPhone4 - fault  empty body of message    Nokia N8 - ok  body of    message -  Hello my friend   To  12345678    HTC Mozart - fault     message  unsupported page   after click on the  Send sms  link    HTC Desire - fault  message  Invalid recipients s    lt 12345678 body Hellomyfriend   after click on the  Send sms  link      I therefore conclude it doesn t really work - with this method at least

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Bradorego s solution is what worked for me  but here is a more expanded answer   A small consideration is that you need to encode the body using  20 instead of    For PHP  this means using rawurlencode  body  instead of urlencode  body   Otherwise you ll see plus signs in the message on old versions of iOS  instead of spaces   Here is a jQuery function which will refit your SMS links for iOS devices  Android other devices should work normally and won t execute the code   HTML    lt a href  sms  15551231234 body Hello 20World  gt SMS  Hello World  to 555-123-1234 lt  a gt    jQuery    function       if    navigator userAgent match   iPad iPhone iPod  g    return     jQuery  a href   sms      attr  href   function            Convert  sms  000 body example        To iOS   sms  000 body example  semicolon  not question mark      return jQuery this  attr  href   replace  sms       0-9           sms  1                   Consider using a class like a sms-link instead of a href   sms    if possible

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To get sms  and mailto  links to work on both iPhone and Android  without any javascript  try this    lt a href  sms 321-555-1111  amp body This is what I want to sent  gt click to text lt  a gt     lt a href  mailto someone sample com  amp subject My subject amp body This is what I want to sent  gt click to email lt  a gt    I tested it on Chrome for Android  amp  iPhone  and Safari on iPhone  They all worked as expected  They worked without the phone number or email address as well

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It turns out this is 100  possible  though a little hacky    If you want it to work on Android you need to use this format    lt a href  sms    phone number here    body    body text here     gt Link lt  a gt   If you want it to work on iOS  you need this    lt a href  sms    phone number here    body    body text here     gt Link lt  a gt   Live demo here  http   bradorego com test sms html  note the  Phone and  body  and  Phone and  body  should autofill both the to  field and the body text  View the source for more info   UPDATE   Apparently iOS8 had to go and change things on us  so thanks to some of the other commenters responders  there s a new style for iOS    lt a href  sms    phone number here    amp body    body text here     gt Link lt  a gt    phone number is optional

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Every OS version has a different way of doing it  Take a look at the sms-link library

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Just put all of the symbols in this order  I only tested it in this order since it makes the most sense code-wise to me     Notice for the body link    I just put       amp body   Also  notice that I have found I needed to use  20 for any spaces    I have tested it on my iphone  v  9 2  and another android and it works just fine   This will solve the issue with having to hack it for different devices  I have no artifacts when I tested it in the SMS    lt a href  sms 19131234567   amp body Question 20from 20mywebsite com  20 20MY 20MESSAGE 20- 20  title  Click here to TEXT US gallery token needs updating   gt Send me SMS lt  a gt

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lt a href       data-telno  13800000000  data-smscontent  hello  class  XXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX sendsms   gt       sendsms   on  click   function        var p     this  data  telno            c     this  data  smscontent            t             if   ios       add your own iOS check         t                  location href    sms    p   t   c

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Neither Android nor iPhones currently support the body copy element in a Tap to SMS hyperlink   It can be done programmatically though    MFMessageComposeViewController  picker     MFMessageComposeViewController alloc  init   picker messageComposeDelegate   self   picker recipients    NSArray arrayWithObject   48151623      picker body     Body text      self presentModalViewController picker animated YES    picker release

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For using Android you use below code   lt a href  sms  32665 body reg fb1 gt Send SMS lt  a gt    For iOS you can use below code   lt a href  sms  32665 amp body reg fb1 gt Send SMS lt  a gt    below code working for both iOs and Android   lt a href  sms  32665  amp body reg fb1 gt Send SMS lt  a gt

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One of the problems with a click-to-text link is solving the desktop scenario where no native texting app exists  A solution is to use Zipwhip s Click-to-Text button creator     On the desktop  they send you an actual real text message behind the scenes from the user s input   On iOS or Android you get the native texting functionality instead    https   www zipwhip com create-sms-button

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lt a href  sms    phone number here    amp body    body text here     gt Link lt  a gt    This works on my iPhone 5S

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For iOS 8  try this    lt a href  sms    phone number here    amp body    body text here     gt Link lt  a gt    Switching the     with a   amp   worked for me

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I found out that  on iPhone 4 with IOS 7  you CAN put a body to the SMS only if you set a phone number in the list of contact of the phone   So the following will work If 0606060606 is part of my contacts    lt a href  sms 0606060606 body Hello my friend  gt Send SMS lt  a gt      By the way  on iOS 6  iPhone 3GS   it s working with just a body     lt a href  sms  body Hello my friend  gt Send SMS lt  a gt

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Well not only do you have to worry about iOS and Android  there s also which android messaging app  Google messaging app for Note 9 and some new galaxys do not open with text  but the samsung app works  The solution seems to be add    after the sms    so sms   15551235555   lt a href  sms    phone number here    body    body text here     gt Link lt  a gt    should be   lt a href  sms   15551235555 body Hello  gt Link lt  a gt

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Just a little bit of topic   but maybe if you searched you could stumble here     In markdown  tested with parsedown and on iOS   android  you could do        Link  sms phone number   amp body URL encoded body text        send sms  sms 1234567890   amp body my 20very 20interesting 20text

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Android and iOS body only    lt a href  sms      amp body Hello 20World  gt Only body lt  a gt    Android and iOS one recipient only with body    lt a href  sms    15552345678   amp body Hello 20World  gt one recipient only with body lt  a gt    Only Android multiple recipients with body    lt a href  sms    15552345678   15552345679   amp body Hello 20World  gt Android multiple recipients with body lt  a gt    Only iOS multiple recipients with body    lt a href  sms   open addresses  15552345678  15552345679   amp body Hello 20World  gt iOS multiple recipients with body lt  a gt    Note that the body should be URI encoded

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I know this is an old thread but stumbled upon it and found that some parts are no longer relevant   I ve found that if you want to just per-populate the text without adding a phone number  you can do the following   sms   amp body    message body here

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