Is there a way to make a conference call programmatically on the IPhone ?
I want to be able to place a call to persons A and B, connecting both, and then dropping myself and let the two parties continue the conversation.
Is that possible ?
Not possible. An app can place a call to a single phone number, via the -openURL: method on UIApplication, but once it does that, it goes into the background and the Phone app takes over.
Also, it sounds as if you’re trying to make a prank-calling app, which is in violation of section 22.6 of the App Store Review Guidelines:
Apps that enable anonymous or prank phone calls or SMS/MMS messaging will be rejected
That type of calling you described in your question, can only happen if you are on a phone system (PBX) in a office. On a mobile phone or the phone in your house, once the party that initiated both calls hangs up, everyone is disconnected.
It's not possible with Facetime if you aren't one of the two persons. But, you would a audio conference or a video conference ?
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Is there any way to block incoming phone calls, text messages and email. Will appstore allows these kind of applications on appstore. Please help me if this is possible or not.
It is now possible from iOS 10 to block the unwanted calls
Checkout the CallKit framework
CallKit introduces app extensions that enable call blocking and caller identification. You can create an app extension that can associate a phone number with a name or tell the system when a number should be blocked.
Update: Never say never :) iOS 10 introduced this possiblity, see other answers.
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NO, this is not possible with public API (and non-jailbroken devices)
And NO, Apple would never allow any app that disrupts the expected standard system behavior
Apple will never allow any third party application to do any illegal things without user's knowledge. This is the policy I think apple has applied to ensure his user's that their data are safe in their iphone. U can consider mails, calls, sms to be under those categories. There may be others which I might have missed.
Please refer this link for your knowledge
Only Apple can do that and unfortunately for you they plan to do otherwise.. :/
Even if it is called "smart", all in all your target device is a "phone" so the basic phone functionalities should not be ever blocked, and the phone manufacturers do not allow this for third party applications.
Rajan is correct you can block the incoming phone calls from iOS 10.
Create a Call Directory Extension , use the addBlockingEntry(withNextSequentialPhoneNumber:) method to pass the blocked numbers to the system.
Now it's end of 2018 and actually you can really do something with Apple's latest API.
As #Rajan stated, with CallKit API (iOS 10+) you can achieve call blocking and identification (i.e. show additional info on the incoming call screen for the caller's phone number).
You can also do SMS and Call Reporting (iOS 11+) as well, where you have access to the SMS content if the number is not in your Contacts.
We want to build an application that the user can interact with while taking a phone call. The idea is that the user can do voice communication using the phone application of the iPhone and at the same time use our application to type and send additional data that is relevant to the call such as an e-mail address. This is the scenario:
User get's a call on the iPhone
The user clicks a button on our app to answer the call and let the phone application on the iPhone handle the phone call in the background.
Our application continues to run in the foreground so that the user can interact with our application to type and send data such as an e-mail address that is relevant to the call.
Is there a way for our application to answer an incoming phone call and let the phone application of the iPhone handle the call in the background while our application continues to run in the foreground?
Thanks,
Prasanna
Currently, the iOS SDK does not support redirecting incoming calls from the system to a custom application. There is only support for initiating a call.
This is not possible with the iPhone SDK.
You could possibly do this if you created your own calling (for example, like Skype does) but I'd say you're barking up the wrong iTree here. It is however possible on jail-broken devices using the custom toolchain but I wouldn't want to recommend that path for development!
You have no control over the phone call process on an iPhone (this is assuming that you’re not talking about a jailbroken iPhone). When the user receives a call, the iPhone presents a window with the number and the “Answer” and “Ignore” buttons (or, if the phone is locked or asleep, the “Slide to Answer” bar). To return to your or any other application, the user must press the home button, sending the call to the background (and activating the red in-call status bar).
The closest you’ll get to this scenario is the user manually running the application while on the phone. But then, if all they’re doing is writing notes, they could just use the Notes app.
Can an iPhone app be made to stop all calls and text messages for a specified number of minutes, that is, prevent the user from making or getting calls and messages? Can an app turn the device off temporarily? Context: help kids to concentrate while doing their homework/studying and not be interrupted with calls and text-messages from their schoolmates.
Not if you want to get into the App Store or run on non-jailbroken devices, no. One of the guiding principles of the SDK is that you can't "break" core functionality like inbound phone calls or SMSs. You will get notified that your app is about to enter a background state (or terminate), but you can't stop the user taking the call or terminating your app.
For information in events that you do get, have a look at UIApplication and UIApplicationDelegate.
Is it possible to create an iPhone application to answer incoming voice calls and play audio files back to the caller? If yes, before answering the call, is it possible to determine the caller id?
Thanks!
This is not possible using the SDK. You can most likely do it with a jailbroken app.
iPhone applications (non-jailbreak apps, at least) cannot intercept phone calls. When a phone call is initiated, your app is paused and cannot execute any commands.
Essentially, count on never being able to prevent basic functionality of the iPhone. You can't override texting behaviour, Mail.app behaviour, Safari behavior, etc. because Apple wants the user experience to be consistent (not to mention security issues in allowing an app to answer calls on someone's behalf).
In the various smartphone APIs/SDKs, I was wondering if it is possible to prompt a user if they'd like to log a phone call after they hang up. The most basic functionality would be after calling out or receiving a call, the phone would ask
Do you want to log the call to|from 555-555-5555?
Yes | No | Never this number
(then it might take the user to a small form and then post the info to a webservice)
The business use is for lawyers who have company phones and need to track billing.
this is a bit different question than Accessing the iPhone's Call log with the iPhone SDK.
On an Android phone you can register a PhoneStateListener to receive a notification of when a call hangs up and log the number by whatever method you wish.
Blackberries have call logging out of the box. Blackberry Enterprise Server activated units sync the log with the server.
On iPhone, no way.
Apple would have to allow (shudder) background applications.
Note: Shraptnel is right, you may be able to monitor the phone state with some private API's if you jailbroke your phone and ran your program in the background.