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sahir
sahir

Reputation: 31

HTML Text Link for iPhone to send SMS to multiple numbers

I can't figure out how to create an HTML link that will allow the dumping of multiple numbers into the Message app. I have tried separating by commas and semicolons without any luck. Please let me know if this is even possible, as I could not find anything about sending a text to multiple numbers on Apple's URL Scheme Reference page.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2863

Answers (2)

DaveCode
DaveCode

Reputation: 147

Try this:

<a href="sms:/open?addresses=12345678901,98765432109">Two Numbers, no message</a>

it should do the trick for iOS.

Upvotes: 5

Eric McCormick
Eric McCormick

Reputation: 2733

Apple's documentation on forming text links for iOS states that it will only accept single phone numbers, with no additional parameters (even though competitors support ?body= in the same fashion as a mailto: link works with ?subject=foo&message=bar). It would seem this also applies the same to anything more than one number, each of my tests in JSFidle yielded only the first number, and no number at all with a message specified. I recommend you adjust your development to either proceed through each message you wish to send, in sequence, or adjust for just the one available recipient.

<!-- works fine -->  
<a href="sms:12345678901">Single Number, no message</a>
<br />
<!-- works for first number only -->
<a href="sms:12345678901,98765432109">Two Numbers, no message</a>
<br />
<!-- doesn't work at all -->
<a href="sms:12345678901?body=hello">Single Number, with message</a>
<br />
<!-- doesn't work at all -->
<a href="sms:12345678901,98765432109?body=hello">Two Numbers, with message</a>

Upvotes: 1

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