Copy/paste phone number into keypad or dial a toll free number in iOS programatically

Question

I am trying to make a call from my app using

 [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"telprompt://1800000002"]];

This is a toll free number in India.But while dialing, it is converting to +1(800)-000-000 (Converting and Saying dialing to United states number)

I have referred Copy/paste phone number into keypad And When I'm redialing a Toll free No. in India, iPhone is connecting USA ]. But could not find the solution.

So can any please help me to avoid this ISD call Indian local call..

Answer 1

The telprompt wants the number in the international format. So you need to convert it to that. I think for India and the number you are trying to call, this should be +911800000002 .

So this should work:

NSURL *phoneURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"telprompt://+911800000002"];
if ([[UIApplication sharedApplication] canOpenURL:phoneURL]) {
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:phoneURL];
} else {
    // handle that case. e.g show number to user so that they can
    // type it in a phone manually or copy it to the clipboard and
    // notify user about that.
}

Depending on how the local numbers compared to international format works in India, you might need to remove the 1 on your number, not sure about that.

On a sidenote: You should always use the international format when dealing with phone numbers. Otherwise a device that is currently outside of the destination country may call somebody else or simply can't place the call at all.

Answer 2

County code added (For India : +91)

 [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"telprompt://+911800000002"]];

Generic way to find out country code

NSLocale *currentLocale = [NSLocale currentLocale];  // get the current locale.
NSString *countryCode = [currentLocale objectForKey:NSLocaleCountryCode]; // get country code, e.g. ES (Spain), FR (France), etc.

Answer 3

Your app might get rejected by Apple if you use telprompt. Use the following code to dial a number programmatically and see that you are inputting the number you'd like to call with correct format.

NSString *phoneNumber = @"+1800000002;
NSString *phoneURLString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"tel:%@", phoneNumber];
NSURL *phoneURL = [NSURL URLWithString:phoneURLString];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:phoneURL];

source: Replacing tel or telprompt to call