How to get the telephone number from iphone?

[Simon Kok]

Hi there.

I'm working on a software registration process where I need to get the telephone number from the iphone itself.

How would I accomplish that?

-- Simon.

[steveg]

> How would I accomplish that?

Provide a field labelled "Telephone number" so that the user can type
it in.

Apple don't provide a way to bypass the user and extract their phone
number, I assume because it could easily be abused.

Steve

[mobile_alf]

I had the same issue, and the usability is somewhat garbage if you ask
the user to retype the phone number,
at least for my application, I did not want it. The work around
(convoluted) was this in my case
For the registration, I pushed the user to a WAP (Mobile web site)
based on the browser header, you do get the
sub_ID from the carrier. It is part of the WAP header. The sub id
can be cross referenced to look up the
phone number. Many SMS aggregators offer this as a third party API
to you. I used my aggregators API
to look up the Phone number, having submitted Sub_ID. Also I get
back the carrier ID and some other little
tid bits...

All this makes for a very streamlined reg process.

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[Alfred Dorkalam]

I achieved the same, by passing them to an external web page to complete the registration. When the user lands on my mobile web page, I read the browser header / device class etc. I also get the sub_ID. I submit the sub_ID to the SMSC and get back the phone number.

Very convoluted, but works ;)

Steve

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