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Asked: 2026-06-04T12:19:44+00:00

It’s surprising that I can send message on my iPad. The method [MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText]

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It’s surprising that I can send message on my iPad.
The method [MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText] returns YES even on iPad.
I don’t know why. It was OK (the method would return NO) when I tested about 2 month ago.

The iOS version is 5.1 (9B176) and the device is iPad 2 (new Pad has the problem as well).
The xcode version is 4.3.1

Has anybody met the same problem?

@jrturton: Yes, you’re right. When I turn iMessage off, [MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText] returns NO.
It seems that [MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText] can NOT be used to find whether the device could send SMS. So how?

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    With the release of iOS 5 and iMessage, and iPad configured to send iMessages, will return YES on [MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText].

    This is not a bug/error, it’s, as Apple would call it, A Feature! I do understand the confusion though, as the documentation for MFMessageComposeViewController doesn’t mention the possibility of an iPad having activated iMessage.

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