How to make phone call in iOS 10 using Swift?

In this post we will be seeing how to make phone in iOS programmatically.

So let’s get started.

Step 1 − Open Xcode → New Project → Single View Application → Let’s name it “MakeCall”

Step 2 − Open Main.storyboard and add one text field and one button as shown below

Step 3 − Create @IBOutlet for the text field, name it phoneNumberTextfield.

Step 4 − Create @IBAction method callButtonClicked for call button

Step 5 − To make a call we can use iOS openURL. In callButtonClicked add following lines

if let url = URL(string: "tel://\(phoneNumberTextfield.text!)"),
UIApplication.shared.canOpenURL(url) {
UIApplication.shared.open(url, options: [:], completionHandler: nil)

Step 6 − Run the app and enter the number you want to make call to as shown in the pic below

Step 7 − Click on the call button, you will be shown an alert with ‘Call’ and ‘Cancel’ options

Step 8 − Click on the call button, the call will be made to the number, as shown below