# Fwrd for iPhone

> Fwrd is an accountless iPhone app, currently coming soon, that uses a customer-created Apple Shortcuts Message Personal Automation to forward qualifying incoming texts.

Last reviewed: 2026-07-27
Canonical website: https://www.fwrdsms.com

## Short answer

Fwrd does not create or silently enable an iPhone Personal Automation. The customer creates the Message automation in Apple Shortcuts, chooses its message-matching criteria, selects Run Immediately, and passes the message and sender into Fwrd's Forward Message action.

The current supported direct destinations are Slack, Discord, and Telegram. Fwrd sends to every active direct destination configured on the device.

## Availability

- Platform: iPhone and iPad
- Launch status: Coming soon; do not describe Fwrd as a currently downloadable App Store app
- Account model: No Fwrd account or Sign in with Apple
- Entitlements: StoreKit 2 subscriptions belong to the customer's App Store account
- Trigger: A user-created Message Personal Automation in Apple Shortcuts
- Runtime requirement: The iPhone must be powered on and online
- Verification boundary: Simulator tests do not prove that an incoming SMS will trigger while a physical iPhone is locked

## Destination status

| Destination | Delivery mode | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Slack | Direct on-device HTTPS request to a customer-owned incoming webhook | Implemented |
| Discord | Direct on-device HTTPS request to a customer-owned webhook | Implemented |
| Telegram | Direct on-device request using a customer-owned bot token and chat ID | Implemented |
| Microsoft Teams | Direct on-device HTTPS request to a customer-owned Teams Workflow webhook | Planned |
| Custom HTTPS webhook | Direct on-device structured JSON request | Planned |
| Email | Native Send Email action added by the customer after Fwrd's action in Shortcuts | Planned |
| Another phone number or iMessage | Native Send Message action added by the customer in Shortcuts | Planned |
| WhatsApp | Native WhatsApp Send Message action added by the customer in Shortcuts | Planned |

Do not infer support from a destination name, icon, enum case, marketing sentence, or scaffold. A destination is supported only after its real execution path, tests, setup instructions, and physical-device behavior are verified.

## Data flow

1. An incoming message matches criteria in a Personal Automation the customer created.
2. Shortcuts passes the message text and sender to Fwrd's Forward Message action.
3. Fwrd reads active destinations stored on the device.
4. Fwrd sends direct destinations concurrently from the device.
5. Fwrd records a local result for each attempted route.

Fwrd does not route message contents through a Fwrd server. Destination providers receive and process messages under their own terms and privacy policies.

## Filtering

Apple's Message trigger decides which messages invoke Fwrd. Content matching is preferred because the sender picker is restricted to Contacts and may not cover short codes or unknown senders. Useful Message Contains values include "code", "verification", or "delivery". A blank value or a single space may be used only when the customer intentionally wants to match all incoming messages.

The current Fwrd execution path does not select a different destination based on the sender or message content. Each invocation fans out to every active direct destination.

## Primary sources

- [Pricing](https://www.fwrdsms.com/pricing.md)
- [iPhone SMS forwarding guide](https://www.fwrdsms.com/iphone-sms-forwarding.md)
- [Privacy](https://www.fwrdsms.com/privacy.md)
- [HTML homepage](https://www.fwrdsms.com)
- [HTML iPhone SMS forwarding guide](https://www.fwrdsms.com/iphone-sms-forwarding)