I understand we cannot extract phone number/ call log from iOS 7. However, how do I give the user a pop-up every time an incoming or outgoing call ends. This pop up will open a form from the App that will already have call duration pre-filled and the user will fill the rest of the call.
I know similar topics exist, but nothing precisely on iOS 7.
That's not possible with current versions of iOS (or iOS 8). I wouldn't expect such a facility becoming available any time soon because it doesn't feel like something Apple would allow.
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I am newbie in ios app development. I want to create application for ios with the following functionality. When the phone is receiving incoming call (no matter if the number is in the contact list or not) I want when the call is over and the phone's owner opens my application to see he's last call's number there.
Is that possible? I've read about CallKit API but I am still not sure if this can help me. Is it possible phone's owner to give such permissions to my app so it can access this information?
After updating to 10.3, my app no longer automatically dials a phone number after pressing the call button in my app using the openURL: options: completionHandler: method.
Instead, a prompt comes up every time to confirm the user's intentions.
As per the Apple Documentation:
The tel URL scheme is used to launch the Phone app on iOS devices and initiate dialing of the specified phone number. When a user taps a telephone link in a webpage, iOS displays an alert asking if the user really wants to dial the phone number and initiates dialing if the user accepts. When a user opens a URL with the tel scheme in a native app, iOS does not display an alert and initiates dialing without further prompting the user. However, a native app can be configured to display its own alert.
According to this, the prompt displays for webpages but doesn't display in a native iOS app.
Could this be a bug in 10.3? Or is there a new function I need to use or a new property to include in the info.plist I do not know about?
Thanks.
This is listed as a known issue in the 10.3 release notes.
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/releasenotes/General/RN-iOSSDK-10.3/
openURL
When a third party application invokes openURL: on a tel://,
facetime://, or facetime-audio:// URL, iOS displays a prompt and
requires user confirmation before dialing.
It is also listed in the Security content of the 10.3 update, so I'm assuming this a new feature that is here to stay.
An issue existed in iOS allowing for calls without prompting. This
issue was addressed by prompting a user to confirm call initiation.
This is not the first time, Apple developers have reactivated this alert for url schemes? I remember that they did this kind activation, even in few other earlier updates, and they rolled back in the next OS update.
In the case of 10.3.1, I read a news that in the US there were many 911 calls fraudulently dialed. https://9to5mac.com/2017/03/06/911-ios-exploit/
In my opinion, the alert restriction has been incorporated to put stop for wrong 911 dials.
I am confident that, Apple cannot enforce this kind of arbitrary changes to API's/Schemes quite often and then, which is largely affecting the user's experience.
I have a Speed Dial App in the store for the last 8 years. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/speed-dial/id306569903?ls=1&mt=8#
In the last few weeks, so many users are complaining about this new restriction of one more touch on the speed dial.
For now, we have to wait until Apple fixes this known issue in the next update. Because, there are 100s productivity apps, which rely on the URL scheme and no alert scheme.
After updating to 10.3, my app no longer automatically dials a phone number after pressing the call button in my app using the openURL: options: completionHandler: method.
Instead, a prompt comes up every time to confirm the user's intentions.
As per the Apple Documentation:
The tel URL scheme is used to launch the Phone app on iOS devices and initiate dialing of the specified phone number. When a user taps a telephone link in a webpage, iOS displays an alert asking if the user really wants to dial the phone number and initiates dialing if the user accepts. When a user opens a URL with the tel scheme in a native app, iOS does not display an alert and initiates dialing without further prompting the user. However, a native app can be configured to display its own alert.
According to this, the prompt displays for webpages but doesn't display in a native iOS app.
Could this be a bug in 10.3? Or is there a new function I need to use or a new property to include in the info.plist I do not know about?
Thanks.
This is listed as a known issue in the 10.3 release notes.
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/releasenotes/General/RN-iOSSDK-10.3/
openURL
When a third party application invokes openURL: on a tel://,
facetime://, or facetime-audio:// URL, iOS displays a prompt and
requires user confirmation before dialing.
It is also listed in the Security content of the 10.3 update, so I'm assuming this a new feature that is here to stay.
An issue existed in iOS allowing for calls without prompting. This
issue was addressed by prompting a user to confirm call initiation.
This is not the first time, Apple developers have reactivated this alert for url schemes? I remember that they did this kind activation, even in few other earlier updates, and they rolled back in the next OS update.
In the case of 10.3.1, I read a news that in the US there were many 911 calls fraudulently dialed. https://9to5mac.com/2017/03/06/911-ios-exploit/
In my opinion, the alert restriction has been incorporated to put stop for wrong 911 dials.
I am confident that, Apple cannot enforce this kind of arbitrary changes to API's/Schemes quite often and then, which is largely affecting the user's experience.
I have a Speed Dial App in the store for the last 8 years. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/speed-dial/id306569903?ls=1&mt=8#
In the last few weeks, so many users are complaining about this new restriction of one more touch on the speed dial.
For now, we have to wait until Apple fixes this known issue in the next update. Because, there are 100s productivity apps, which rely on the URL scheme and no alert scheme.
I'm very new to iPhone development. Sorry, if this sounds silly.I need to know if there is any method that is triggered when a user gets a call and know if he accepted or rejected it. I want to know this this on real time, and not from the logs. What is the apis thats related to these kind of functionality in ios 8.
I have a couple apps on the Apple App Store and would like some way to send announcements to users whenever I want. Basically, I want to remotely change the text of an IUAlertview and only trigger it to appear if I want it to (upon app opening and only if I updated the message).
So far I have no problem making the IUAlertview appear on when the app opens, and I can easily program an NSUserDefault flag to only make the IUAlertview appear under certain circumstances, but really have no idea how to dynamically change the UIAlertview text without resubmitting my app to Apple continuously.
Can someone please explain how this is done? Thanks!
One way to do this is to have your app periodically (or upon each launch) check a file on a website that you control and if there is changed text (or a version number, or newer date than the last time an alert was displayed) there, then display that changed text in your UIAlertView.