SMS: link to multiple phone numbers?

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SMS: link to multiple phone numbers?

Hi,

I am trying to setup a html link on my website to enable people to send a text message to 2 phones in one go.

Sending to a single phone would be something like sms:+61400123123 (I haven't put the full URL in, just the important part for SMS).

However, I want to send to 2 phones, so I thought sms:+61400123123,+61400999000 would work. It works on my wife's Samsung, but I can't get it to work on my iPhone.

Does anyone know how to encode an HTML Link to multiple SMS numbers that iPhone will honour?

Many Thanks

Marcus

iPhone 5, iOS 8

Posted on Jun 5, 2016 6:12 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 31, 2017 12:42 PM in response to marcusfromhornsby

I know this is an old thread, but this works for me on ios 11, except I am using 10 digit numbers ( no leading 1 or dashes). Where did you find the syntax "//open?address=". Searched for hours and everything said "sms:<number>"

thanks

Jim

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Answer 2

Jun 5, 2016 6:31 PM in response to marcusfromhornsby

If it doesn't work, I would try a semi-colon

example—

<ahref="sms:+61400123123;+61400999000">Two numbers</a>

from my brief understanding, unfortunately there is no way to send a SMS to multiple recipients from a web app on iPhones with the sms code.

Maybe there is a php work a round

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2014/04/add-sms-to-your-web-app-in-4-lines-of-code.h tml

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Answer 3

Jun 5, 2016 6:31 PM in response to leroydouglas

Hi Leroy,

Thanks for the quick reply, but unfortunately that doesn't work either....

I should have said what I had tried already...

I have tried the following separators, none seem to work, although google searches suggests comma should work

, - comma

: - colon

; - semi-colon

| - pipe ?

thanks

Marcus

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Answer 4

Jun 5, 2016 6:35 PM in response to marcusfromhornsby

Cross platform can be troublesome

http://thenewcode.com/856/Send-a-SMS-Text-From-A-Link

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Answer 5

Jun 5, 2016 6:59 PM in response to leroydouglas

thanks for the link.

I tried the option in that link that suggested SMS:// rather than just the SMS: but that still doesn't work.

On a Samsung, sms:+61400123124,+61400999000 works but on my iPhone the text message application just comes up with +61400123124, in the send to box with the cursor after the comma, expecting new numbers to be added....:(

So it knows that there should be something after the comma but is loosing the 2nd number along the way...

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Answer 6

Jun 26, 2016 1:25 AM in response to marcusfromhornsby

thats how it works

sms:/open?addresses=1-408-555-1212,1-408-555-2121,1-408-555-1221&body=My sms text

Michael

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Answer 7

Jun 26, 2016 2:05 AM in response to mikel_kiel

Hi Michael,

thanks for the reply, but if you test it with an iPhone I think you will find it doesn't actually work.

Did you get this working with an iPhone???

thanks

Marcus

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Answer 8

Jun 26, 2016 4:01 AM in response to marcusfromhornsby

Yes, it works on my iPhone / iPad

Best regards

michael

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Answer 9

Jun 26, 2016 4:52 AM in response to mikel_kiel

Hi Michael,

Oh OK...

Can I then just check a couple of things with you as it doesn't seem to work for me..

Is the full URL <a href="sms://open?addresses=1-408-555-1212,1-408-555-2121,1-408-555-1221&body=My sms text">Try This</a> ?

If that is correct, can you tell me what iOS version you are using? I am using iOS 7.1.2.

Assuming you are on a higher version, do you know what version this issue was fixed in?

Many thanks for your help, it is appreciated

thanks

Marcus

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Answer 10

Jun 26, 2016 6:42 AM in response to marcusfromhornsby

Hi Marcus. I use the version of iOS 9.3.

However, this functionality should be implemented already for iOS 3.

I take this possible in conjunction with FileMaker to generate and send SMS to multiple users .

Best Regards

Michael

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