UIWebView tel: the telephone delegate is not called on the iPad (but it works on the iPhone)

Question

My UIWebView shows a webpage containing the tel url: [phone]

<a href="tel:[phone]">Phone link</a> 

When I click on this link on the iPhone, my UIWebViewDelegate gets called correctly.

 - (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType 

When I click on this link on the iPad, my UIWebViewDelegate is not called at all. Instead, a UIActionSheet is automatically displayed with the Add to Contacts, Copy, and Cancel options.

Is there a way to catch "tel:" HTML links from a UIWebView on a device that does not have the capabilities of a phone, for example. iPad

This behavior is the same for the simulator:

• IPhone simulator: delegate called
• iPad simulator: delegate not called

Answer 1

Have you tried simply:

 if ( UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad ) { return YES; /* Device is iPad */ }