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title: About System Messaging
framework: userexperience
role: article
path: apple-archive/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/SystemMessaging_TopicsForIOS/Introduction
---

# About System Messaging

Explains how to send mail and SMS messages from your app.

## Organization of This Document

This document includes the following articles:

- [Sending a Mail Message](../Articles/SendingaMailMessage.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010415-SW1) explains how to use the standard mail composition interface as well as how to write a delegate method for dismissing it when the user is finished. - [Sending an SMS Message](../Articles/SendinganSMSMessage.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010416-SW1) explains how to configure and present a standard SMS message composition interface, as well as how to dismiss it with a delegate object.

[Next](../Articles/SendingaMailMessage.html)

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