AppleScript iMessage to SMS accounts is not working on Mac OS X v14 (Sonoma)

bash_bob

I am trying to write a script that parses through an Excel file and sends an SMS/ iMessage to all listings in the file. The script works for all, except the SMS type. How can I fix this? Set file_Name to "/Target.xlsx" set messageToSend to "Testing an app I wrote to sent mass text messages. Just ignore." set greeting to "Good afternoon" tell application "Microsoft Excel" activate open file_Name tell active sheet tell used range set RowCount to...

Originally asked by jh45 on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

This portion of your script works in macOS v15.01 (Sequoia): tell application "Messages" -- set iMessageService to (1st account whose service type = iMessage) set iMessageService to (1st account whose service type = SMS) set iMessageBuddy to participant "18885551212" of iMessageService send "Hello!" to iMessageBuddy end tell I don't have a Sonoma installation and cannot test on that system.

Full answer by gaseous1: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/79104864 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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