SingleShare WhatsApp on iOS not working

Steps to reproduce

import Share from 'react-native-share';

const shareOptions = {
    title: 'Share via',
    message: 'some message',
    social: Share.Social.WHATSAPP,
};
Share.shareSingle(shareOptions);

Expected behaviour

It should open the WhatsApp

Actual behaviour

App Crashes

Environment

React Native version: 0.59.2
React Native platform + platform version: iOS 12.3.1

react-native-share

Version: 1.1.3

RCTFatalException: Exception '*** -[__NSCFConstantString stringByAppendingString:]: nil argument' was thrown while invoking shareSingle on target RNShare with params (
        {
        message = "Hey! I\U2019m really exited to share the new app for stu...:

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Comments:25 (4 by maintainers)

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iRyusacommented, Feb 4, 2020

Well it’s installed, that’s the issue… Opening via Linking.openURL('whatsapp://send?text=‘hello from RN’) works just fine.

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MateusAndradecommented, Sep 6, 2019

Hi @imbudhiraja , i got a similar problem a time ago, and as i remember is was related to a specific param that WhatsApp on IOS doesn’t recognize. I ended using something similar to this:

export const shareImage = async (image, message, title, subject) => {
  const shareInfo = {
    title,
    url: image,
    subject,
  };

  const shareResponse = ShareCustom.open(shareInfo)
    .then(res => ({ error: '', payload: res, success: true }))
    .catch(err => ({ error: (err && err.error) || 'User did not share', payload: {}, success: false }));

  return shareResponse;
};

I think you can omit the url param without any problem on your case. Btw, let me know if this helps you.