Favorites won't dial my voice mailbox with 20+ characters?? Now what?

Hi there,

This is actually a limitation imposed by Apple, which is frustrating for me too. For security reasons (I'm not sure what those reasons actually are, but that's the official explanation), only Apple's own applications like the Phone app or Contacts can dial numbers which contain certain special codes (like the hash/square/'pound' key or the star/asterisk key).

So while Favorites recognises those numbers and attempts to dial them as normal, the actual iPhone OS refuses to actually initiate the call. So it's currently out of my hands, which is annoying (I also have a voice mailbox number I'd like to add to Favorites).

Rest assured that I've already submitted a request to Apple to allow third-party applications to dial such numbers, and if/when Apple do allow it, Favorites will then automatically be able to dial those numbers without needing any further update to do so.

If I hear anything further on this from Apple, I'll also post a further reply here on this topic. :)