Getting country calling prefix

Question

I was just curious if there were any simple methods for retrieving the country calling code from a user's phone.

For instance, I want my app to automatically fill in the users' country calling code.

Code +1 will be returned if the user is in the United States, +83 for users in China, +61 for users in Australia, etc.

I looked around, but all I saw was:-

NSLocale *locale = [NSLocale currentLocale];
NSString *countryCode = [locale objectForKey: NSLocaleCountryCode];

which does not return the calling prefix but rather the country code abbreviation?

Please lend a hand!

Answer 1

For a class that offers both this data and phone number formatting, see:- https://github.com/rmaddy/RMPhoneFormat