create hyperlink in sms in iPhone

Question

Is it possible to create a hyperlink in an sms in an iPhone?

For example, if I want the word 'foo' hyperlinked in HTML then I'll write <a href="http://foo.com"&gt;foo&lt;/a&gt; in a normal situation.

If I want to have a certain word in my sms to be hyperlinked to something, is there any way I can do this? Like "I have a <a href="http://foo.com"&gt;surprise&lt;/a&gt; for you" and the receiver taps on the hyperlinked word 'surprise' which will take the user to the destined page.

Any suggestions as to how this can be done? Examples and samples welcome!

Thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

I experimented with exactly this just yesterday. It seems you can't include a nicely formatted hyperlink, unfortunately. I hope to be proven wrong by somebody else, though :-)

However, as you've probably seen yourself, iPhone is able to recognize an URL and you can tap on it to open the URL in Safari (or tap the disclosure button next the message to get more options on what to do with the URL). As far as I can tell the only thing you can do is format your SMS accordingly: "I have a surprise for you: http://foo.com" even though that might spoil the surprise ;-)

Answer 2

i don't think it's possible to create hyperlinks in SMS.

The only way is to send an URL, and the iPhone will convert it to a link...

Answer 3

No, you cannot use html tags in sms / text messages. All you can do is insert the URL without the tag. It then depends on the receivers device whether the URL is presented to the user as link or as plain text.

Answer 4

No, you can't do this due to privacy issues. Apple thinks that giving you this ability would allow you to link users to malware and such. Sorry!