Open Radar

 
18-Jun-2009 04:14 PM Julian Romero Nieto:
Summary: 
iPhone native applications phone links result in an alert shown to the user asking permission to place the call. The documentation, Apple URL Scheme Reference: Phone Links, last updated: 2009-06-08,  clearly stated than only HTML links displays an alert.

Steps to Reproduce:
In Objective-C:
1.- NSURL *phoneURL = [NSURL URLWithString:telURLString];
2.- [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:phoneURL];

Expected Results:
If the URL is correct, the phone.app should launch and "initiates dialing without further prompting from the user."

Actual Results:
An alert displays asking if the user really wants to dial the phone number and initiates dialing if the user accepts.

Regression:
The alert only occurs in iPhone OS 3.0. Previous versions didn't display the alert. 

Notes:
Apple current iPhone OS 3.0 documentation:
Apple URL Scheme Reference: Phone Links
The tel URL scheme is used to launch the Phone application and initiate dialing of the specified phone number. Tapping a telephone link on a webpage displays an alert asking if the user really wants to dial the phone number and initiates dialing if the user accepts. In a native application, opening a URL with the tel scheme initiates dialing without further prompting from the user.

Possible duplicate: rdar://6983447 and rdar://6983486