iOS 12 SMS Reading API?

Question

In Beta version of iOS 12 I have observed it gives OTP(from SMS) in keyboard suggestion.
So is there any API which they have created for developers ? Or that would just be an OS feature.

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 11 '18 at 06:24

It is OS feature but you need to set UITextField's input view’s textContentType property oneTimeCode.

otpTextField.textContentType = .oneTimeCode

NOTE: Security Code AutoFill will only works with System Keyboard it will not work with custom keyboard.

When you get OTP it will look something like this:

刘俊利 · Answer 2 · 2018-11-12T06:57:30.660

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Unfortunately, you can't read the full message, you can only read the verify-code in the message.

Swift:

@available(iOS 12.0, *)
public static let oneTimeCode: UITextContentType

myTextField.textContentType = .oneTimeCode

Objective-C:

UITextContentType const UITextContentTypeOneTimeCode NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(12_0);

myTextField.textContentType = UITextContentTypeOneTimeCode;

These following verification code CAN be recognized by the system:

A pure number of lengths of 3-8

like : 123 1234 12345 666666 1234567 12345678 ...

These following verification code CANNOT be recognized by the system:

(i).length of code is less than 3 or more than 8 (ii).include letters

like : 1 12 123a 9h7d 123456789 ...

Others:

Security Code AutoFill will only works with System Keyboard. It will not work with custom keyboard.

edited Nov 12 '18 at 06:57

answered Sep 28 '18 at 08:00

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What is the source of your info? Can we get a link. – Michael Ozeryansky Oct 30 '18 at 19:36
@MichaelOzeryansky Do you mean the test info ? No source. This is the result from my own test.. – 刘俊利 Oct 31 '18 at 01:53
The yellow text, the symbol ">", is used to quote something. I asked because it seemed you quoted some reference. – Michael Ozeryansky Nov 01 '18 at 04:33
I also saw that the limit of characters of the SMS is 70! – Matthew Usdin Nov 13 '19 at 10:41
@mattyU Where did you see it? – 刘俊利 Nov 14 '19 at 02:05
@刘俊利 it's the result of my test! – Matthew Usdin Nov 14 '19 at 09:51
See https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=z0i801mg and https://wicg.github.io/sms-one-time-codes/#format – Aure77 Jan 04 '22 at 13:30

score 4 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 01 '18 at 05:45

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There is no api, but you need set textContentType as .oneTimeCode of UITextField property

otpTextField.textContentType = .oneTimeCode

one more thing,

If you use a custom input view for text field, iOS cannot display the necessary AutoFill UI.

Click here for more info by apple

edited Nov 01 '18 at 05:45

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answered Jun 11 '18 at 06:12

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score 3 · Answer 4 · edited May 15 '21 at 16:59

Adding to other answers, after testing it seems that the text message needs to include either "Verification number" or "Code" before the number to work properly.

Working:

Verification number 1234
Verification number: 1234
Verification code 1234
Verification code: 1234
Code 1234
Code: 1234
OTP 1234
OTP: 1234

Not working:

Number 1234
Verification 1234
1234

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 21 '19 at 15:37

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Worthg mentioning that it seems "Autofill Passowrds" keyboard option needs to be turned on on the phone.

answered Oct 21 '19 at 15:37

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 12 '18 at 07:02

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No there is no public API for that. It is automatically handled by OS. You just need to set UITextField's input view’s textContentType property to oneTimeCode.

textField.textContentType = .oneTimeCode

answered Nov 12 '18 at 07:02

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