Phone dial() doesn't work on iOS with the version 8.9.1

[PetroSychLviv]

Hi!
I am using Nativescript 8.9.1 and the native script-phone library 3.0.3.
I am trying to call the method dial() but it doesn't do anything on iOS
This check always returns false
if (UIApplication.sharedApplication.canOpenURL(url))

Could someone please help me to solve this issue?
Thank you

[prestopasto]

I recently saw the same problem in our app on iOS.

if (UIApplication.sharedApplication.canOpenURL(url)) would even return true for me, it just didn't do anything after that.

At least for a temporary patch we moved to using openUrl() from @nativescript/core/utils and prepending 'tel:' to the phone number.

[msajjid]

Those who are still having issue in iPhone devices, create this utility specifically for iPhone platform.

import { Utils } from "@nativescript/core";
import { dataSerialize } from "@nativescript/core/utils";

export function dialIOS(phoneNumber: string): Promise<boolean> {
  return new Promise((resolve) => {
    const formatted = phoneNumber.startsWith("+")
      ? phoneNumber
      : `+${phoneNumber.replace(/^0+/, "")}`;

    Utils.executeOnMainThread(() => {
      const app = UIApplication.sharedApplication;
      const url = NSURL.URLWithString(`tel:${formatted.trim()}`);

      if (!url || !app.canOpenURL(url)) {
        return resolve(false);
      }

      app.openURLOptionsCompletionHandler(
        url,
        dataSerialize({}),
        (success: boolean) => resolve(success)
      );
    });
  });
}