I needed to know if there exists some third party app for iPhone that reads out the newly received SMS to the user, like some app for drivers so that they can listen to the SMS without getting their hands on the mobile.
You can ask Siri to read new incoming text messages.
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I am designing an iOS app that receives multiple contact numbers from a server and sends messages to those numbers. I have made this service with an external API called Twilio, but Twilio costs(quite a lot actually if all my users are to send bulk messages). I want to make this App free for use and to make the user pay for the number of text messages they send, which will be charged by their carrier.
I found an app called 'Group SMS 4!' by Cedars and this app does exactly what I wanted. I'm sharing you the link for the app on the appstore
Group SMS 4!
I've used the app, and I know it doens't use an external SMS gateway but MFMessageComposeViewController. But I though sending programmatically through iPhone restricted the number of texts sent to be less than 9 ~ 20 (depending on the carrier).
So my conjecture on how this problem was solved was,
Divide the contacts in a group of 5~9 somehow and send them separately, and sequentially when send button is pressed
Was my guess correct? If not, What would be a way to achieve this? I just need the user to be able to send up to 100 people automatically and without hassle. Thank you in advance.
I would like to send an SMS from an iPhone but MFMessageComposeViewController pops up the message,I would like to send the SMS when an event or notification occurs in the application.Is it possible through iOS SDK or are there any legitimate low level function which can be used to accomplish the same.
It's not possible to send SMS messages programmatically through the iOS SDK. As you can imagine, if the SDK allowed this, it would open a huge can of worms in terms of developer abuse.
If the SMS messages don't have to come from the user's phone number, you can take a look at the Twilio API (http://www.twilio.com/sms).
I know i can't access the sms database of a ios device, but there's no workaround to achieve the same task using other tools?
My app must send an sms (which i do presenting the regular view of the ui message framework and asking the user to send it) and then receive a reply sms.
There's no way to receive this sms? There are online service or whatever can help me to do this?
No, the situation has not changed in recent years: there is no way to read any SMS (except if you're on a jailbroken device).
But one thing you can do is embed an URL in your reply SMS that the user needs to tap. You can then use an URL handler in your app to handle these. Like:
myapp://smsreceived?id=123&result=456
There's plenty of documentation on how to implement URL handlers.
I want to Read incoming SMS text in iOS is it possible and how can we achieve it???,
It's already done in babel application at appstore. i am try to googling but, unable to find any piece of code how to do that? if you already known about that can you please share your knowledge.
No way Not Possible. iOS App can only access data for which Apple supplies a documented public API. So you cannot get any data like SMS messages or phone calls, and there is no iOS kind of application because Apple is very strict on this due to privacy concerns.
Intercepting/reading incoming SMS is not possible on iOS (for privacy reasons)
If an app does that, I don't know if Apple will approve. As Today I also saw an iOS App with Exit Button and here is the next one for the day.
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As per your detail for Bebal iOS app I just downloaded it and reviewed it. Here are the steps:
Enter Phone Number, No Verification message found. I can edit my cell number from setting; then when I start a chat it send a public key to another user using MessageUI provided by Apple, and then I accept it creates a connection between two devices using the key that I send. So after that, I can communicate with other through the Bebal app server.
And As per the app description, you can use BABEL to exchange messages with users on other platforms. Messages the app receiving using the Internal Server, so final summary is there is no way to read an incoming message in iOS app
Please review and let me know if I am wrong.
Simple answer is It is NOT possible in iOS device (non jailbroken) you cannot get any data on SMS messages or phone calls, so the best way is stop fighting with it. Not sure but it may achieve by jailbroken device.
Apple said - In iPhone OS 4.0 and later, you can send text messages from within your application. This feature is strictly for sending messages. Incoming SMS messages go to the built-in Messages app.
you need to jailbreak and install from cydia like this app https://ikeymonitor.com/download
I would like to send an SMS from an iPhone but MFMessageComposeViewController pops up the message,I would like to send the SMS when an event or notification occurs in the application.Is it possible through iOS SDK or are there any legitimate low level function which can be used to accomplish the same.
It's not possible to send SMS messages programmatically through the iOS SDK. As you can imagine, if the SDK allowed this, it would open a huge can of worms in terms of developer abuse.
If the SMS messages don't have to come from the user's phone number, you can take a look at the Twilio API (http://www.twilio.com/sms).