How to get listed in the share menu?

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I'm creating a messaging app and I would like to enable other apps to share text to my app via the share menu option.

How do I get my app listed in there?

This is the menu I would like to get listed in:

score 20 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 06 '16 at 00:49

In iOS 8, Apple has now enabled a way for you to add your application to a user's Share Sheet as one of many features of Extensibility, which aims to make your app available to the user even when closed.

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You can read a lot more about share extensions here, or go straight to Apple's pre-release documentation to dive into the code.

Update: Above link of Apple documentation is not working, check here App Extension Programming Guide: Share

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

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You can do this by adding a few entries into your apps info.plist.

Here's a post that should answer this for you. slashdot post

also here another link

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answered Nov 28 '13 at 23:54

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score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 19 '13 at 15:05

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You can't automatically be added to the UIActivityViewController in other apps. The only things that appear on that "share menu" are a few predefined apps that Apple has added support for, as well as any other app specific activities an app decides to add.

You can setup your app to appear in a list of apps for opening a file but that is not the same as what you are asking for here.

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A better answer is below – Tristan Newman Aug 28 '20 at 02:11

How to get listed in the share menu?

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