“This item cannot be shared. Please select a different item.” WhatsApp iOS share extension failure message

Question

This bug is fixed by WhatsApp team on 23rd May, 2016 (build no. 2.16.4).

Unable to share NSString object using UIActivityViewControll

Answer 1

I'm not sure about your question... Do you want just send text by whatsapp? If yes, you don't need use UIActivityViewController. Just use urlschemes.

Something like that:

NSString *string = @"whatsapp://send?text=";
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:[string stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL: ];

You also can check if the user have whatsapp installed

if ([[UIApplication sharedApplication] canOpenURL: url]) {
   // wahtsapp installed
} else {
   // whatsapp not installed
}

Look this question: Share image/text through WhatsApp in an iOS app