I'm trying to find out if an IPhone app. after installed, can email or text the IPhones number?

Question

I'm trying to find out if an IPhone application. after installed, can email or text the IPhones number to a designated email or sms message location. And or convert a received email message to a text message and send it. Automaticaly.

Answer 1

The simple answer -- no. You can't do this. There isn't an API to either get the user's email address automatically or to send SMS messages automatically. You could ask the user to enter their email address or select it from the address book, but you cannot get their address without their permission.

As for SMS messages, you cannot send an SMS message without presenting it to the user first and allowing them to decide if they really want to send it or not.

Apple has really thought very hard about how to prevent abusing user's information and how to prevent the iPhone from being used as a spam conduit. Even if you found a loophole in the APIs that would somehow let you do one of these things, Apple would more than likely figure out what you were up to and either not approve your app or, if found later, remove it from the App Store. If this is a paid application, you could even be liable for all of the refunds -- including the 30% cut that Apple took initially. In other words, this is a horrible idea any way you look at it.