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In my application I am able to send an SMS programatically to a particular mobile number when the user clicks submit button. Then there is a response message from that mobile number now I want to read that message and populate that SMS text in to my application.

I searched for this and found that this is not possible in iOS. My question is there any possibility accessing inbox SMS with user permissions?

Alex Zavatone
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Suresh Peddisetti
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Simply two words from Apple:

Not Possible

Detailed:

An iOS app can only access the data for which Apple supplies a documented public API. iOS can not access outside of the sandbox until Apple provides a public API for it. So intercepting/reading an incoming SMS not possible. And no idea when the iOS device is jailbroken.

JJJ
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Buntylm
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No it's not possible in iOS, it's possible on jailbroken devices but you can not place your application in the App Store.

Alex Zavatone
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Retro
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You can't read SMS, but you can auto fill a text field from SMS.

From Apple Documentation :

To ensure your text input view displays the right AutoFill suggestions, set the textContentType property on any relevant input views.

so you can do the following : 

textField.textContentType = .oneTimeCode

More info : check the link here

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