How to use openURL for making a phone call in Swift?

Question

I have converted the code for making a phone call from Objective-C to Swift, but in Objective-C, we can set the type of the URL that we like to open (e.g. telephone, SMS, we

Answer 1

You need to remember to remove the whitespaces or it won't work:

if let telephoneURL = NSURL(string: "telprompt://\(phoneNumber.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString(" ", withString: ""))") {
        UIApplication.sharedApplication().openURL(telelphoneURL)
    }

"telprompt://" will prompt the user to call or cancel while "tel://" will call directly.