this functionality for SMS is great, it would be good to have a way to generate the short url without sending an SMS (e.g. add it to the embed button output for forms).

I’d like to add an upvote for this!

Yes I agree! Elvanto already does this when contacting people via SMS: https://elvan.to/xxxxx

This should be added to Messaging.

100% agreed. This will be great. I'm going to note this idea down and present this to the product team. If anything progresses we will keep you updated on this post.