Question

Seems like this should be simple enough but for whatever reason I am unable to get the phone feature to prompt when my UIButton is pressed.

-(IBAction)viewMapButton:(id) sender
{
    NSString *phoneNumber = [[NSString alloc] initWithString:@"tel:[phone]"];

    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:phoneNumber]];

    NSLog(@"Call");
}

My NSLog is successfully called. I am running this just on the iOS simulator; is that causing it not to prompt to place the call?

Thanks!
Flea

Answer 1

The iOS simulator doesn’t have a phone (just like the iPod Touch), so nothing will happen when you call the tel URL scheme.