# Reading iOS contacts and sending SMS invitations

Language: en
Canonical: [Reading iOS contacts and sending SMS invitations](<https://allluckly.cn/en/journal/2015-06-16-reading-ios-contacts-and-sending-sms-invitations/>)
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Published: 2015-06-16T00:00:00+08:00
Modified: 2026-10-23T10:34:09+08:00
Author: [Bison](<https://allluckly.cn/about/>)

Introduces a small wrapper for a friend-invitation workflow: reading device contacts and opening the SMS composer. It lists the AddressBook, AddressBookUI and MessageUI dependencies and provides the LBContacts example project.

Originally credited to Bison. Content is retained as published.

English translation of the [Chinese original](<https://allluckly.cn/%E9%80%9A%E8%AE%AF%E5%BD%95/%E8%8E%B7%E5%8F%96%E9%80%9A%E8%AE%AF%E5%BD%95%E5%B9%B6%E5%8F%91%E7%9F%AD%E4%BF%A1%E7%BB%99%E8%81%94%E7%B3%BB%E4%BA%BA>), translated on 2026-10-23. The article body uses automated translation; app descriptions, historical reading notes and video subtitles receive separate editorial checks. Original publication dates, attribution, code and version notes are retained.

**Before you read** This technical note dates from 2015–2017. The examples have not been rerun as part of this archive update. Published in 2015. The example depends on AddressBook and AddressBookUI.

> "The beginning is the most important part of the work." Plato

I recently built an invite-a-friend feature that reads the phone's contacts and sends invitations by text message. I made a simple wrapper; take a look if you need it.

> [Click here → download the demo](<https://github.com/AllLuckly/LBContacts>)

Briefly, the 3 required frameworks are `AddressBookUI.framework`, `AddressBook.framework`, and `MessageUI.framework`.