I’m working to enable a text message to be sent from an app. Using the ‘compose text’ action, it is clearly trying to do something but isn’t successfully sending the text.
The workflow is
User enters a phone number that should receive the text. I’ve tried using standard US formats and international formats. Same result in both cases.
Click a button called ‘text a friend’
Action checks to make sure that the phone number column is populated (called ‘SantaText’ in this example)
Then…huh?
When you click the button to enable the action, it shows the screen in the image below. This screen appears to be the same “left arrow, right arrow, x” layout as seen during ‘sign in with google.’
The Compose text action would only open up your device’s default messaging app and automatically add the message to the body. The user would still need to click “Send” for it to be sent.
If you want it to be fully automatic, you might want to explore the Twilio integration.
If it’s showing off a blank screen, I would check if the number is valid.
Thanks Thinh. After trying a different phone number, some progress was achieved. Now, the button opens a ‘dial a number’ screen to make a phone call. It does not open SMS.
But the action is only “Compose SMS”? How long ago have you made the change? I would make sure the change has migrated to the device you’re testing on.
I’m testing on an iPhone X.
It’s my number. I tried several times including other people’s numbers. Each time, the phone number appeared in the data table.
