# Compose sms for iPhone

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**Created:** [April 23, 2024, 1:37am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/compose-sms-for-iphone/72805 "2024-04-23T01:37:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 23, 2024, 2:44am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/compose-sms-for-iphone/72805/2 "2024-04-23T02:44:27Z")

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Might be useful. There’s links to other posts in the same thread. Seems like the format 555-555-5555 is the trick. Not sure about necessarily having to compose a full HTML link since Glide does that already, but hopefully this is helpful.

> [@Composing a group SMS](https://community.glideapps.com/t/composing-a-group-sms/59987/6):
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> I actually just figured this out! You need to create a joined list column with the phone numbers you want for a given text, with the numbers separated simply by a comma (no spaces). Then create a template column where you add in the following url to the start: sms://open?addresses=. I noticed that the number needs to be formatted XXX-XXX-XXXX; without the dashes it doesn’t work. (not sure if it handles parentheses or country codes). So the data in your column would look like sms://open?addresse…

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