Send SMS Message to multiple recipients in Swift - ios

Question

I want to send a single message to multiple recipients using MFMessageComposeViewController, I am unable to add the second and so on recipients
here's my code :
#IBAction func sendSms(sender: AnyObject) {
if (MFMessageComposeViewController.canSendText())
{
let controller = MFMessageComposeViewController()
controller.body = self.textView.text
controller.recipients = [self.phoneField.text!]
controller.messageComposeDelegate = self
self.presentViewController(controller, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
else
{
print("Error")
}
}
extension MyViewController : MFMessageComposeViewControllerDelegate
{
func messageComposeViewController(_ controller: MFMessageComposeViewController, didFinishWith result: MessageComposeResult)
{
controller.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)}
}
}
Any Suggestions how can i send it to multiple recipients?

Answer 1

If user is entering multiple phone numbers in your textfield then you need to prompt the user to separate phone numbers using comma (or any other symbol) through which you can separate the string and add it into your array, then pass that array in controller.recipients
here is an example
if (MFMessageComposeViewController.canSendText())
{
let controller = MFMessageComposeViewController()
controller.body = self.textView.text
let phoneNumberString = "123456789,987654321,2233445566"
let recipientsArray = phoneNumberString.components(separatedBy: ",")
controller.recipients = recipientsArray
controller.messageComposeDelegate = self
self.presentViewController(controller, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
else
{
print("Error")
}

Answer 2

If you want to add multiple recipients then you can write this...
here is my code...
if (MFMessageComposeViewController.canSendText())
{
let composeVC = MFMessageComposeViewController()
composeVC.messageComposeDelegate = self
// Configure the fields of the interface.
composeVC.recipients = ["4085551212","8597485365","2564756984"]
composeVC.body = "Hello from California!"
// Present the view controller modally.
self.presentViewController(composeVC, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
func messageComposeViewController(controller: MFMessageComposeViewController,
didFinishWithResult result: MessageComposeResult)
{
// Check the result or perform other tasks.
// Dismiss the message compose view controller.
controller.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)
}