I'm creating an iOS application with a password reset feature that sends an email to the user. After sending the email I want to display a UIAlertController
to the user asking them if they would like to open the mail application.
I've seen various posts on here along the lines of:
let url = NSURL(string: "mailto:")
UIApplication.sharedApplication().openURL(url!)
This works but unfortunately it starts a new message which is not what I want. I only want to launch the application so the user can see their inbox.
Not tested myself but maybe this answer will help you:
Apparently Mail supports a second url scheme
message://
which (I suppose) allows you to open a specific message if it was fetched by your application. If you do not provide a full message url, it will just open Mail:
let mailURL = URL(string: "message://")!
if UIApplication.shared.canOpenURL(mailURL) {
UIApplication.shared.openURL(mailURL)
}
Taken from: Launch Apple Mail App from within my own App?
The Swift 3.0.1 way of just opening the Mail app goes as follows:
private func openMailClient() {
let mailURL = URL(string: "message://")!
if UIApplication.shared.canOpenURL(mailURL) {
UIApplication.shared.openURL(mailURL)
}
}
As "dehlen" correctly stated, using the message://
scheme will only open the mail app, if no further information is provided.
Obviously a few years later...I had to add a completion handler for Xcode 10.2.1 swift 5.
This works perfectly-
let emailURL = NSURL(string: "message://")!
if UIApplication.shared.canOpenURL(emailURL as URL)
{
UIApplication.shared.open(emailURL as URL, options: [:],completionHandler: nil)
}
Since UIApplication.shared.openURL()
method has been deprecated and we can use URL()
directly in place of NSURL()
, the updated version of this question's answer is:
let mailURL = URL(string: "message://")!
if UIApplication.shared.canOpenURL(mailURL) {
UIApplication.shared.open(mailURL, options: [:], completionHandler: nil)
}
This will work with Xcode 11.5:
override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
switch indexPath.row {
case 5:
openEmailApp(email: "email@gmail.com")
default:
break
}
}
func openEmailApp(email: String) {
if let url = URL(string: "mailto: \(email)") {
UIApplication.shared.open(url)
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