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Button widget to SMS integrations

Press a button on your phone's home screen, and IFTTT sends you an SMS right away. Useful for quick texts to yourself, alerts to others, or anything you need to trigger with a single tap.
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3 ready-made Button widget and SMS Applets

Turn one on, or build your own. Button widget can start an automation with "Button press", and IFTTT can then run "Send me an SMS" on SMS.
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Create your own Button widget and SMS workflow

Create custom workflows effortlessly by selecting triggers, queries, and actions. With IFTTT, it's simple: “If this” trigger happens, “then that” action follows. Streamline tasks and save time with automated workflows that work for you.

4 triggers, queries, and actions

Button press

Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, and every 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+.
 This trigger fires every time you press the button.
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Send IFTTT an SMS tagged

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Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, and every 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+.
 Send IFTTT a tagged SMS by adding a hashtag symbol anywhere in the message (e.g. #IFTTT).
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Send IFTTT any SMS

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Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, and every 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+.
 This Trigger fires every time you send any SMS to your IFTTT phone number.
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Send me an SMS

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Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
 This Action will send an SMS to your mobile phone.
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Button press

Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, and every 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+.
 This trigger fires every time you press the button.
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Send IFTTT an SMS tagged

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Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, and every 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+.
 Send IFTTT a tagged SMS by adding a hashtag symbol anywhere in the message (e.g. #IFTTT).
View details Try it

Send IFTTT any SMS

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Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, and every 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+.
 This Trigger fires every time you send any SMS to your IFTTT phone number.
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Send me an SMS

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Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
 This Action will send an SMS to your mobile phone.
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If
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Button press
Select a trigger the automation will use
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Button press
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Send IFTTT an SMS tagged
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Send IFTTT any SMS
Then
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Send me an SMS
Select an action the automation will perform
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Send me an SMS

You can add delays, queries, and more actions in the chat.

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How to connect to a Button widget automation

Find an Applet using Button widget and SMS

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About Button widget

Button widget and IFTTT let you tap a button on your phone to trigger automations across your connected services.
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SMS and IFTTT let you receive text messages on your phone when things happen, or trigger automations by texting IFTTT.
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