How to programmatically send SMS on the iPhone

Question

Does anybody know if it s possible  and how  to programmatically send a SMS from the iPhone  with the official SDK   Cocoa Touch

User · Answer

There is a class in iOS 4 which supports sending messages with body and recipents from your application  It works the same as sending mail  You can find the documentation here  link text

User · Answer

You must add the MessageUI framework to your Xcode project Include an  import  lt MessageUI MessageUI h gt  in your header file Add these delegates to your header file MFMessageComposeViewControllerDelegate   amp  UINavigationControllerDelegate In your IBAction method declare instance of MFMessageComposeViewController say messageInstance To check whether your device can send text use  MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText  in an if condition  it ll return Yes No  In the if condition do these    First set body for your messageInstance as   messageInstance body     Hello from Shah    Then decide the recipients for the message as   messageInstance recipients    NSArray arrayWithObjects   12345678     87654321           nil    Set a delegate to your messageInstance as   messageInstance messageComposeDelegate   self   In the last line do this     self presentModalViewController messageInstance animated YES

User · Answer

UIApplication sharedApplication openURL  NSURL URLWithString   sms number       This would be the best and short way to do it

User · Answer

Restrictions  If you could send an SMS within a program on the iPhone  you ll be able to write games that spam people in the background   I m sure you really want to have spams from your friends   Try out this new game   It roxxers my boxxers  and yours will be too  roxxersboxxers com     If you sign up now you ll get 3 200 RB points     Apple has restrictions for automated  or even partially automated  SMS and dialing operations    Imagine if the game instead dialed 911 at a particular time of day   Your best bet is to set up an intermediate server on the internet that uses an online SMS sending service and send the SMS via that route if you need complete automation    ie  your program on the iPhone sends a UDP packet to your server  which sends the real SMS   iOS 4 Update  iOS 4  however  now provides a viewController you can import into your application   You prepopulate the SMS fields  then the user can initiate the SMS send within the controller   Unlike using the  SMS      url format  this allows your application to stay open  and allows you to populate both the to and the body fields   You can even specify multiple recipients   This prevents applications from sending automated SMS without the user explicitly aware of it   You still cannot send fully automated SMS from the iPhone itself  it requires some user interaction   But this at least allows you to populate everything  and avoids closing the application   The MFMessageComposeViewController class is well documented  and tutorials show how easy it is to implement   iOS 5 Update  iOS 5 includes messaging for iPod touch and iPad devices  so while I ve not yet tested this myself  it may be that all iOS devices will be able to send SMS via MFMessageComposeViewController   If this is the case  then Apple is running an SMS server that sends messages on behalf of devices that don t have a cellular modem   iOS 6 Update  No changes to this class   iOS 7 Update  You can now check to see if the message medium you are using will accept a subject or attachments  and what kind of attachments it will accept   You can edit the subject and add attachments to the message  where the medium allows it   iOS 8 Update  No changes to this class   iOS 9 Update  No changes to this class   iOS 10 Update  No changes to this class   iOS 11 Update  No significant changes to this class  Limitations to this class  Keep in mind that this won t work on phones without iOS 4  and it won t work on the iPod touch or the iPad  except  perhaps  under iOS 5   You must either detect the device and iOS limitations prior to using this controller  or risk restricting your app to recently upgraded 3G  3GS  and 4 iPhones   However  an intermediate server that sends SMS will allow any and all of these iOS devices to send SMS as long as they have internet access  so it may still be a better solution for many applications   Alternately  use both  and only fall back to an online SMS service when the device doesn t support it

User · Answer

Follow this procedures  1  Add MessageUI Framework to project  2   Import  import  lt MessageUI MessageUI h gt  in  h file   3   Copy this code for sending message   if   MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText         MFMessageComposeViewController  messageComposer         MFMessageComposeViewController alloc  init       NSString  message     Message           messageComposer setBody message       messageComposer messageComposeDelegate   self       self presentViewController messageComposer animated YES completion nil       4   Implement delegate method if you want to   -  void messageComposeViewController  MFMessageComposeViewController   controller didFinishWithResult  MessageComposeResult result          your stuff here        self dismissViewControllerAnimated YES completion nil       Run And GO

User · Answer

You can use a sms  target phone number  URL to open the SMS application  but there are no indications on how to prefill a SMS body with text

User · Answer

One of the systems of inter-process communication in MacOS is XPC  This system layer has been developed for inter-process communication based on the transfer of plist structures using libSystem and launchd  In fact  it is an interface that allows managing processes via the exchange of such structures as dictionaries  Due to heredity  iOS 5 possesses this mechanism as well   You might already understand what I mean by this introduction  Yep  there are system services in iOS that include tools for XPC communication  And I want to exemplify the work with a daemon for SMS sending  However  it should be mentioned that this ability is fixed in iOS 6  but is relevant for iOS 5 0   5 1 1  Jailbreak  Private Framework  and other illegal tools are not required for its exploitation  Only the set of header files from the directory  usr include xpc   are needed   One of the elements for SMS sending in iOS is the system service com apple chatkit  the tasks of which include generation  management  and sending of short text messages  For the ease of control  it has the publicly available communication port com apple chatkit clientcomposeserver xpc  Using the XPC subsystem  you can generate and send messages without user s approval    Well  let s try to create a connection   xpc connection t myConnection   dispatch queue t queue   dispatch queue create  com apple chatkit clientcomposeserver xpc   DISPATCH QUEUE CONCURRENT    myConnection   xpc connection create mach service  com apple chatkit clientcomposeserver xpc   queue  XPC CONNECTION MACH SERVICE PRIVILEGED     Now we have the XPC connection myConnection set to the service of SMS sending  However  XPC configuration provides for creation of suspended connections    we need to take one more step for the activation   xpc connection set event handler myConnection    xpc object t event   xpc type t xtype   xpc get type event   if XPC TYPE ERROR    xtype    NSLog   XPC sandbox connection error   s n   xpc dictionary get string event  XPC ERROR KEY DESCRIPTION         Always set an event handler  More on this later   NSLog   Received a message event           xpc connection resume myConnection     The connection is activated  Right at this moment iOS 6 will display a message in the telephone log that this type of communication is forbidden  Now we need to generate a dictionary similar to xpc dictionary with the data required for the message sending   NSArray  recipient    NSArray arrayWithObjects    7  90   000-00-00   nil    NSData  ser rec    NSPropertyListSerialization dataWithPropertyList recipient format 200 options 0 error NULL    xpc object t mydict   xpc dictionary create 0  0  0   xpc dictionary set int64 mydict   message-type   0   xpc dictionary set data mydict   recipients    ser rec bytes    ser rec length    xpc dictionary set string mydict   text    hello from your application       Little is left  send the message to the XPC port and make sure it is delivered   xpc connection send message myConnection  mydict   xpc connection send barrier myConnection     NSLog   The message has been successfully delivered          That s all  SMS sent

User · Answer

-  void sendSMS  NSString   bodyOfMessage recipientList  NSArray   recipients       UIPasteboard  pasteboard    UIPasteboard generalPasteboard       UIImage  ui  resultimg image      pasteboard image   ui        UIApplication sharedApplication  openURL  NSURL URLWithString   sms

User · Answer

Here is a tutorial which does exactly what you are looking for  the MFMessageComposeViewController   http   blog mugunthkumar com coding iphone-tutorial-how-to-send-in-app-sms   Essentially   MFMessageComposeViewController  controller      MFMessageComposeViewController alloc  init  autorelease   if  MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText         controller body     SMS message here       controller recipients    NSArray arrayWithObjects   1 234 567-8910   nil       controller messageComposeDelegate   self       self presentModalViewController controller animated YES       And a link to the docs   https   developer apple com documentation messageui mfmessagecomposeviewcontroller

User · Answer

Add the Framework in  h file   import  lt MessageUI MessageUI h gt   import  lt MessageUI MFMailComposeViewController h gt     Set the delegate methods  UIViewController lt UINavigationControllerDelegate MFMessageComposeViewControllerDelegate gt     add the below code in  m file   -  void viewDidAppear  BOOL animated       super viewDidAppear animated        MFMessageComposeViewController  controller           MFMessageComposeViewController alloc  init  autorelease        if  MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText                  NSString  str    Hello           controller body   str          controller recipients    NSArray arrayWithObjects                                        nil           controller delegate   self           self presentModalViewController controller animated YES                -  void messageComposeViewController   MFMessageComposeViewController   controller                  didFinishWithResult  MessageComposeResult result        switch  result                case MessageComposeResultCancelled                NSLog   Cancelled                    break           case MessageComposeResultFailed              NSLog   Failed                break             case MessageComposeResultSent                    break           default                break                 self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated YES

User · Answer

call method with name and number   - void openMessageViewWithName  NSString  contactName withPhone  NSString   phone   CTTelephonyNetworkInfo  networkInfo   CTTelephonyNetworkInfo alloc init    CTCarrier  carrier networkInfo subscriberCellularProvider   NSString  Countrycode   carrier isoCountryCode   if   Countrycode length  gt 0        Check If Sim Inserted         self sendSMS msg recipientList  NSMutableArray arrayWithObject phone      else         AlertHelper showAlert   Message  withMessage   No sim card inserted             Method for sending message  -  void sendSMS  NSString   bodyOfMessage recipientList  NSMutableArray   recipients     MFMessageComposeViewController  controller1     MFMessageComposeViewController alloc  init     controller1     MFMessageComposeViewController alloc  init     if  MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText         controller1 body   bodyOfMessage      controller1 recipients   recipients      controller1 messageComposeDelegate   self       self presentViewController controller1 animated YES completion Nil

User · Answer

You can use this approach     UIApplication sharedApplication openURL  NSURL URLWithString   sms MobileNumber      iOS will automatically navigate from your app to the messages app s message composing page  Since the URL s scheme starts with sms   this is identified as a type that is recognized by the messages app and launches it

User · Answer

If you want  you can use the private framework CoreTelephony which called CTMessageCenter class  There are a few methods to send sms

User · Answer

Here is the Swift version of code to send SMS in iOS  Please noted that it only works in real devices  Code tested in iOS 7   You can read more here   1  Create a new Class which inherits MFMessageComposeViewControllerDelegate and NSObject   import Foundation import MessageUI  class MessageComposer  NSObject  MFMessageComposeViewControllerDelegate          A wrapper function to indicate whether or not a text message can be sent from the user s device     func canSendText   - gt  Bool           return MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText                 Configures and returns a MFMessageComposeViewController instance     func configuredMessageComposeViewController textMessageRecipients  String   textBody body String  - gt  MFMessageComposeViewController           let messageComposeVC   MFMessageComposeViewController           messageComposeVC messageComposeDelegate   self      Make sure to set this property to self  so that the controller can be dismissed          messageComposeVC recipients   textMessageRecipients         messageComposeVC body   body         return messageComposeVC               MFMessageComposeViewControllerDelegate callback - dismisses the view controller when the user is finished with it     func messageComposeViewController controller  MFMessageComposeViewController   didFinishWithResult result  MessageComposeResult            controller dismissViewControllerAnimated true  completion  nil                2  How to use this class   func openMessageComposerHelper sender AnyObject  withIndexPath indexPath  NSIndexPath        var recipients    String           modify your recipients here      if  messageComposer canSendText              println  can send text              Obtain a configured MFMessageComposeViewController         let body   Utility createInvitationMessageText            let messageComposeVC   messageComposer configuredMessageComposeViewController recipients  textBody  body              Present the configured MFMessageComposeViewController instance            Note that the dismissal of the VC will be handled by the messageComposer instance             since it implements the appropriate delegate call-back         presentViewController messageComposeVC  animated  true  completion  nil        else              Let the user know if his her device isn t able to send text messages         self displayAlerViewWithTitle  Cannot Send Text Message   andMessage   Your device is not able to send text messages

User · Answer

Use this   -  void showSMSPicker       Class messageClass    NSClassFromString   MFMessageComposeViewController          if  messageClass    nil                         Check whether the current device is configured for sending SMS messages         if   messageClass canSendText                 self displaySMSComposerSheet                         -  void messageComposeViewController  MFMessageComposeViewController   controller didFinishWithResult  MessageComposeResult result                feedbackMsg hidden   NO         Notifies users about errors associated with the interface     switch  result                case MessageComposeResultCancelled                           UIAlertView  alert1     UIAlertView alloc  initWithTitle   Message  message   SMS sending canceled     delegate self cancelButtonTitle nil otherButtonTitles   OK   nil                alert1 show                alert1 release                            feedbackMsg text     Result  SMS sending canceled           break           case MessageComposeResultSent                        UIAlertView  alert2     UIAlertView alloc  initWithTitle   Message  message   SMS sent     delegate self cancelButtonTitle nil otherButtonTitles   OK   nil                alert2 show                alert2 release                            feedbackMsg text     Result  SMS sent           break           case MessageComposeResultFailed                           UIAlertView  alert3     UIAlertView alloc  initWithTitle   Message  message   SMS sending failed     delegate self cancelButtonTitle nil otherButtonTitles   OK   nil                alert3 show                alert3 release                            feedbackMsg text     Result  SMS sending failed           break           default                           UIAlertView  alert4     UIAlertView alloc  initWithTitle   Message  message   SMS not sent     delegate self cancelButtonTitle nil otherButtonTitles   OK   nil                alert4 show                alert4 release                            feedbackMsg text     Result  SMS not sent           break              self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated  YES

User · Answer

You need to use the MFMessageComposeViewController if you want to show creating and sending the message in your own app   Otherwise  you can use the sharedApplication method

User · Answer

Add the MessageUI Framework and use the following code    import  lt MessageUI MessageUI h gt     And then   if   MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText       MFMessageComposeViewController  messageComposer       MFMessageComposeViewController alloc  init     NSString  message     Your Message here      messageComposer setBody message     messageComposer messageComposeDelegate   self     self presentViewController messageComposer animated YES completion nil       and the delegate method -   -  void messageComposeViewController  MFMessageComposeViewController   controller              didFinishWithResult  MessageComposeResult result          self dismissViewControllerAnimated YES completion nil

User · Answer

You can present MFMessageComposeViewController  which can send SMS  but with user prompt he taps send button   No way to do that without user permission  On iOS 11  you can make extension  that can be like filter for incoming messages   telling iOS either its spam or not  Nothing more with SMS cannot be done

[ios] How to programmatically send SMS on the iPhone?

Examples related to ios

Examples related to objective-c

Examples related to cocoa-touch

Examples related to sms