Email to iMessage Phone Number

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Created Jun ’22

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I need to send an OTP authorization code to verify a user's phone number. For testing, I've been using an e-mail sent to a phone number via AT&T's gateway but I don't want this app to be limited to AT&T customers only so I'm looking for a better solution.

It occurred to me that perhaps I could use iMessage for this instead, as long as the user has their phone number setup in their iMessage account. The question is, is there an e-mail address I could send to like I do with AT&T such as 5551234567 @ imessage.com?

I do not want iMessage to open on the user's device. That would defeat the entire purpose. I am trying to figure out a way to send an e-mail to user's phone number that is already setup in iMessage on their device/account.

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Vision Pro Engineer OP

Apple

Jun ’22

iMessage doesn't have any functionality like many carriers' SMS-email functionality, so unfortunately this would not be possible.

There are many widely-used services that can send SMS to phone numbers regardless of the carrier that might be of use!

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kittonian OP

Jun ’22

I've been looking at those 3rd party services, but since we only need to do this in order to verify a phone number added to a user's account, I haven't found any that don't have monthly minimum charges, and really good rates. Any chance you could recommend a few to look at?

Also, perhaps instead of looking at it as I am now, there is a better solution for verifying a phone number (i.e. user enters a phone number and we send them an OTP verification code)?

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