How to open iphone mail application from my own application?

Question

i am working on signup feature. In this feature when the user create account successfully. i am asking him or her to activate his account. i want to open the mail application of iphone if user say yes. now my question is simple how to open mail application from my own application?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1942689/iphone-email-app-launch-url — Rok Jarc, May 09 '12 at 12:08
There's an excellent answer [here](http://stackoverflow.com/a/24953719/2547229) that links to [this article](https://medium.com/@vijayssundaram/how-to-deep-link-to-ios-7-mail-6c212bc79bd9). You can directly open the App, and you can even open a specific email (provided Apple don't remove the API, anyway). — Benjohn, Jul 09 '15 at 13:03
If somebody would like to open compose email inside app http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4862523/objective-c-send-email-without-leaving-app — andilabs, Aug 15 '15 at 21:58

adali · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-23T00:24:25.157

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#define URLEMail @"mailto:sb@sw.com?subject=title&body=content"

 NSString *url = [URLEMail stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding ]; 
 [[UIApplication sharedApplication]  openURL: [NSURL URLWithString: url]];

edited Oct 23 '13 at 00:24

answered May 09 '12 at 09:25

adali

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Exactly what I was looking for, thanks! Just FYI, your code has a semantical error. I think you meant to say `NSString *url = [URLEMail stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];` – dooleyo Oct 22 '13 at 17:45
Any tips on how to try this in the simulator? – Rudolf Real Apr 30 '15 at 18:30

Mick MacCallum · Answer 2 · 2013-04-24T10:23:31.773

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Try this out.

-(void)launchMailAppOnDevice
{
    NSString *recipients = @"mailto:myemail@gmail.com?subject=subjecthere";
    NSString *body = @"&body=bodyHere";

    NSString *email = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@", recipients, body];
    email = [email stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:email]];
}

edited Apr 24 '13 at 10:23

answered May 09 '12 at 09:26

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not works :( and i am not want to send email i want to check email thats y i want open native mail app of iphone – Faheem Rajput May 09 '12 at 09:33
just minor mistake,this is right string NSString *recipients = @"mailto:myemail@gmail.com?subject=subjecthere"; – freelancer Apr 24 '13 at 05:43

Alessandro Pirovano · Answer 3 · 2017-06-09T21:31:42.890

stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding and openURL are deprecated.

Now use this:

#define URLEMail @"mailto:sb@sw.com?subject=title&body=content"

NSString * encodedString = [URLEMail stringByAddingPercentEncodingWithAllowedCharacters:[NSCharacterSet URLFragmentAllowedCharacterSet]];

UIApplication *application = [UIApplication sharedApplication];
    [application openURL:[NSURL URLWithString: encodedString] options:@{} completionHandler:nil];

score 4 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

Ahoy!

The long and short of it is; you can't.

You can create an email compose view for the purpose of sending emails (see MFMailComposeViewController), but you cannot open applications arbitrarily without a purpose.

See this previous post for clarification: Launch an app from within another (iPhone)

Really though, it's not much effort for the user to close your app and open Mail so I wouldn't worry too much about it anyway.

How to open iphone mail application from my own application?

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