I wrote the code for getting IMEI number in iPhone/iPad devices, it worked well IOS 6. Once I updated the OS version to IOS 7, app getting crash while executing IMEI number retrieval code. Is there any changes required to get the IMEI in IOS 7 devices?
Here is my code:
struct CTResult it;
CFMutableDictionaryRef kCTDict;
conn = _CTServerConnectionCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault, ConnectionCallback,NULL);
_CTServerConnectionCopyMobileEquipmentInfo(&it, conn, &kCTDict);
NSLog (# "kCTDict is %#", kCTDict);
CFStringRef meid = CFDictionaryGetValue(kCTDict, CFSTR("kCTMobileEquipmentInfoMEID"));
NSLog (# "kCTMobileEquipmentInfoMEID is %#", meid);
CFStringRef mobileId = CFDictionaryGetValue(kCTDict,CFSTR("kCTMobileEquipmentInfoCurrentMobileId"));
NSLog (# "kCTMobileEquipmentInfoCurrentMobileId is %#", mobileId);
I am not very sure about IMEI number in iOS7 Apple changed the way they provide the Unique Identifier. But you should not be getting IMEI in first place as you're using private API and this is against Apple rules.
To get unique identifier for device you should use UDID. This will always return the same id across all your apps running on the same phone.
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I need to get iPhone unique number programmatically. I know that apple will reject app if I try to gain iPhone serial number.
But may be there is a way to get any unique number of iPhone, so server can distinguish one device from another.
For each iPhone, MAC address is unique ( except for iOS Simulator ). You can obtain the information to identify the device. This question will guide you to get MAC address. However, iOS7 disallows use of MAC address. Therefore, for iOS 6 or before, you can use MAC address; for the coming iOS 7, you can use the following method.
Since iOS 6, Apple suggests to use Advertising Identifier, which can be found in ASIdentifierManager class. Example code:
NSUUID *uuid = [ASIdentifierManager advertisingIdentifier];
Have you looked at identifierForVendor?
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/UIDevice_Class/Reference/UIDevice.html#//apple_ref/occ/instp/UIDevice/identifierForVendor
Apple describe it as:
An alphanumeric string that uniquely identifies a device to the app’s
vendor.
You should try this to get uid of your iPhone:
NSString *udid = [[UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueIdentifier];
Is there any way to get own phone number by standard APIs from iPhone SDK?
At the risk of getting negative marks, I want to suggest that the highest ranking solution (currently the first response) violates the latest SDK Agreement as of Nov 5, 2009. Our application was just rejected for using it. Here's the response from Apple:
"For security reasons, iPhone OS restricts an application (including its preferences and data) to a unique location in the file system. This restriction is part of the security feature known as the application's "sandbox." The sandbox is a set of fine-grained controls limiting an application's access to files, preferences, network resources, hardware, and so on."
The device's phone number is not available within your application's container. You will need to revise your application to read only within your directory container and resubmit your binary to iTunes Connect in order for your application to be reconsidered for the App Store.
This was a real disappointment since we wanted to spare the user having to enter their own phone number.
No, there's no legal and reliable way to do this.
If you find a way, it will be disabled in the future, as it has happened with every method before.
Update: capability appears to have been removed by Apple on or around iOS 4
Just to expand on an earlier answer, something like this does it for me:
NSString *num = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] stringForKey:#"SBFormattedPhoneNumber"];
Note: This retrieves the "Phone number" that was entered during the iPhone's iTunes activation and can be null or an incorrect value. It's NOT read from the SIM card.
At least that does in 2.1. There are a couple of other interesting keys in NSUserDefaults that may also not last. (This is in my app which uses a UIWebView)
WebKitJavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically
NSInterfaceStyle
TVOutStatus
WebKitDeveloperExtrasEnabledPreferenceKey
and so on.
Not sure what, if anything, the others do.
Using Private API you can get user phone number on the following way:
extern NSString* CTSettingCopyMyPhoneNumber();
+(NSString *) phoneNumber {
NSString *phone = CTSettingCopyMyPhoneNumber();
return phone;
}
Also include CoreTelephony.framework to your project.
You cannot use iOS APIs alone to capture the phone number (even in a private app with private APIs), as all known methods of doing this have been patched and blocked as of iOS 11. Even if a new exploit is found, Apple has made clear that they will reject any apps from the app store for using private APIs to do this. See #Dylan's answer for details.
However, there is a legal way to capture the phone number without any user data entry. This is similar to what Snapchat does, but easier, as it does not require the user to type in their own phone number.
The idea is to have the app programmatically send a SMS message to a server with the app’s unique installation code. The app can then query the same server to see if it has recently received a SMS message from a device with this unique app installation code. If it has, it can read the phone number that sent it. Here’s a demo video showing the process. As you can see, it works like a charm!
This is not super easy to set up, but it be configured in a few hours at no charge on a free AWS tier with the sample code provided in the tutorial here.
As you probably all ready know if you use the following line of code, your app will be rejected by Apple
NSString *num = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] stringForKey:#"SBFormattedPhoneNumber"];
here is a reference
http://ayeapi.blogspot.com/2009/12/sbformatphonenumber-is-lie.html
you can use the following information instead
NSString *phoneName = [[UIDevice currentDevice] name];
NSString *phoneUniqueIdentifier = [[UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueIdentifier];
and so on
#property(nonatomic,readonly,retain) NSString *name; // e.g. "My iPhone"
#property(nonatomic,readonly,retain) NSString *model; // e.g. #"iPhone", #"iPod Touch"
#property(nonatomic,readonly,retain) NSString *localizedModel; // localized version of model
#property(nonatomic,readonly,retain) NSString *systemName; // e.g. #"iPhone OS"
#property(nonatomic,readonly,retain) NSString *systemVersion; // e.g. #"2.0"
#property(nonatomic,readonly) UIDeviceOrientation orientation; // return current device orientation
#property(nonatomic,readonly,retain) NSString *uniqueIdentifier; // a string unique to each device based on various hardware info.
Hope this helps!
To get you phone number you can read a plist file. It will not work on non-jailbroken iDevices:
NSString *commcenter = #"/private/var/wireless/Library/Preferences/com.apple.commcenter.plist";
NSDictionary *dict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:commcenter];
NSString *PhoneNumber = [dict valueForKey:#"PhoneNumber"];
NSLog([NSString stringWithFormat:#"Phone number: %#",PhoneNumber]);
I don't know if Apple allow this but it works on iPhones.
No official API to do it. Using private API you can use following method:
-(NSString*) getMyNumber {
NSLog(#"Open CoreTelephony");
void *lib = dlopen("/Symbols/System/Library/Framework/CoreTelephony.framework/CoreTelephony",RTLD_LAZY);
NSLog(#"Get CTSettingCopyMyPhoneNumber from CoreTelephony");
NSString* (*pCTSettingCopyMyPhoneNumber)() = dlsym(lib, "CTSettingCopyMyPhoneNumber");
NSLog(#"Get CTSettingCopyMyPhoneNumber from CoreTelephony");
if (pCTSettingCopyMyPhoneNumber == nil) {
NSLog(#"pCTSettingCopyMyPhoneNumber is nil");
return nil;
}
NSString* ownPhoneNumber = pCTSettingCopyMyPhoneNumber();
dlclose(lib);
return ownPhoneNumber;
}
It works on iOS 6 without JB and special signing.
As mentioned creker on iOS 7 with JB you need to use entitlements to make it working.
How to do it with entitlements you can find here:
iOS 7: How to get own number via private API?
AppStore will reject it, as it's reaching outside of application container.
Apps should be self-contained in their bundles, and may not read or write data outside the designated container area
Section 2.5.2 :
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#software-requirements
I'm currently using Erica's code to get hold of the iPhone IMEI number programmatically: https://github.com/erica/uidevice-extension/blob/master/UIDevice-IOKitExtensions.m
This works fine on iPhone 3G and 4, even an iPhone 4 with iOS 5. But when I try it on a iPhone 4S, it returns empty.
Does the code I'm currently using need updating, or is there an alternate method to get the IMEI on the 4S?
In the end, due to fact that Apple is going to be restricting access to unique identifiers like the IMEI and the iPhone unique Id, I resorted to using some code from Georg Kitz which creates a unique identifier based on the MAC address of the phone, hashed using MD5.
Using Georg Kitz's code (https://github.com/gekitz/UIDevice-with-UniqueIdentifier-for-iOS-5), I can simply get the Id as follows:
UIDevice * thisDevice = [UIDevice currentDevice];
thisDevice.uniqueDeviceIdentifier
Is there any way to get own phone number by standard APIs from iPhone SDK?
At the risk of getting negative marks, I want to suggest that the highest ranking solution (currently the first response) violates the latest SDK Agreement as of Nov 5, 2009. Our application was just rejected for using it. Here's the response from Apple:
"For security reasons, iPhone OS restricts an application (including its preferences and data) to a unique location in the file system. This restriction is part of the security feature known as the application's "sandbox." The sandbox is a set of fine-grained controls limiting an application's access to files, preferences, network resources, hardware, and so on."
The device's phone number is not available within your application's container. You will need to revise your application to read only within your directory container and resubmit your binary to iTunes Connect in order for your application to be reconsidered for the App Store.
This was a real disappointment since we wanted to spare the user having to enter their own phone number.
No, there's no legal and reliable way to do this.
If you find a way, it will be disabled in the future, as it has happened with every method before.
Update: capability appears to have been removed by Apple on or around iOS 4
Just to expand on an earlier answer, something like this does it for me:
NSString *num = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] stringForKey:#"SBFormattedPhoneNumber"];
Note: This retrieves the "Phone number" that was entered during the iPhone's iTunes activation and can be null or an incorrect value. It's NOT read from the SIM card.
At least that does in 2.1. There are a couple of other interesting keys in NSUserDefaults that may also not last. (This is in my app which uses a UIWebView)
WebKitJavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically
NSInterfaceStyle
TVOutStatus
WebKitDeveloperExtrasEnabledPreferenceKey
and so on.
Not sure what, if anything, the others do.
Using Private API you can get user phone number on the following way:
extern NSString* CTSettingCopyMyPhoneNumber();
+(NSString *) phoneNumber {
NSString *phone = CTSettingCopyMyPhoneNumber();
return phone;
}
Also include CoreTelephony.framework to your project.
You cannot use iOS APIs alone to capture the phone number (even in a private app with private APIs), as all known methods of doing this have been patched and blocked as of iOS 11. Even if a new exploit is found, Apple has made clear that they will reject any apps from the app store for using private APIs to do this. See #Dylan's answer for details.
However, there is a legal way to capture the phone number without any user data entry. This is similar to what Snapchat does, but easier, as it does not require the user to type in their own phone number.
The idea is to have the app programmatically send a SMS message to a server with the app’s unique installation code. The app can then query the same server to see if it has recently received a SMS message from a device with this unique app installation code. If it has, it can read the phone number that sent it. Here’s a demo video showing the process. As you can see, it works like a charm!
This is not super easy to set up, but it be configured in a few hours at no charge on a free AWS tier with the sample code provided in the tutorial here.
As you probably all ready know if you use the following line of code, your app will be rejected by Apple
NSString *num = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] stringForKey:#"SBFormattedPhoneNumber"];
here is a reference
http://ayeapi.blogspot.com/2009/12/sbformatphonenumber-is-lie.html
you can use the following information instead
NSString *phoneName = [[UIDevice currentDevice] name];
NSString *phoneUniqueIdentifier = [[UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueIdentifier];
and so on
#property(nonatomic,readonly,retain) NSString *name; // e.g. "My iPhone"
#property(nonatomic,readonly,retain) NSString *model; // e.g. #"iPhone", #"iPod Touch"
#property(nonatomic,readonly,retain) NSString *localizedModel; // localized version of model
#property(nonatomic,readonly,retain) NSString *systemName; // e.g. #"iPhone OS"
#property(nonatomic,readonly,retain) NSString *systemVersion; // e.g. #"2.0"
#property(nonatomic,readonly) UIDeviceOrientation orientation; // return current device orientation
#property(nonatomic,readonly,retain) NSString *uniqueIdentifier; // a string unique to each device based on various hardware info.
Hope this helps!
To get you phone number you can read a plist file. It will not work on non-jailbroken iDevices:
NSString *commcenter = #"/private/var/wireless/Library/Preferences/com.apple.commcenter.plist";
NSDictionary *dict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:commcenter];
NSString *PhoneNumber = [dict valueForKey:#"PhoneNumber"];
NSLog([NSString stringWithFormat:#"Phone number: %#",PhoneNumber]);
I don't know if Apple allow this but it works on iPhones.
No official API to do it. Using private API you can use following method:
-(NSString*) getMyNumber {
NSLog(#"Open CoreTelephony");
void *lib = dlopen("/Symbols/System/Library/Framework/CoreTelephony.framework/CoreTelephony",RTLD_LAZY);
NSLog(#"Get CTSettingCopyMyPhoneNumber from CoreTelephony");
NSString* (*pCTSettingCopyMyPhoneNumber)() = dlsym(lib, "CTSettingCopyMyPhoneNumber");
NSLog(#"Get CTSettingCopyMyPhoneNumber from CoreTelephony");
if (pCTSettingCopyMyPhoneNumber == nil) {
NSLog(#"pCTSettingCopyMyPhoneNumber is nil");
return nil;
}
NSString* ownPhoneNumber = pCTSettingCopyMyPhoneNumber();
dlclose(lib);
return ownPhoneNumber;
}
It works on iOS 6 without JB and special signing.
As mentioned creker on iOS 7 with JB you need to use entitlements to make it working.
How to do it with entitlements you can find here:
iOS 7: How to get own number via private API?
AppStore will reject it, as it's reaching outside of application container.
Apps should be self-contained in their bundles, and may not read or write data outside the designated container area
Section 2.5.2 :
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#software-requirements
For an iPhone app that submits images to a server I need somehow to tie all the images from a particular phone together. With every submit I'd like to send some unique phone id. Looked at
[[UIDevice mainDevice] uniqueIdentifier]
and
[[NSUserDefaults standardDefaults] stringForKey:#"SBFormattedPhoneNumber"]
but getting errors in the simulator.
Is there an Apple sanctioned way of doing this?
What errors are you getting? [[UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueIdentifier] (edited to fix API, thanks Martin!) is the officially recommended way of doing this.
You can also use CFUUID to generate a UUID. Here's some code:
NSString *uuid = nil;
CFUUIDRef theUUID = CFUUIDCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault);
if (theUUID) {
uuid = NSMakeCollectable(CFUUIDCreateString(kCFAllocatorDefault, theUUID));
[uuid autorelease];
CFRelease(theUUID);
}
By far the easiest and most appropriate way to obtain a unique identifier is to use the mechanisms Apple explicitly provides for obtaining one - [[UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueIdentifier]. You can not guarantee that the phone number will be unique to the device or that the device will even have a phone number. Beyond that, doing so is a horrible idea as it is a definite invasion of the user's privacy. Even the uniqueidentifier should be hashed if you are going to store it in any way.
In order to Persist the Unique Identifier you create between installations, you could use the Keychain Made easy with SSKeychain: Simply set your UUID as follows:
[SSKeychain setPassword:#"Your UUID" forService:#"com.yourapp.yourcompany" account:#"user"];
and then call it again anytime you need it:
NSString *retrieveuuid = [SSKeychain passwordForService:#"com.yourapp.yourcompany" account:#"user"];
Note: The services and accounts must match exactly.
Then, if the App is deleted and reinstalled, the UUID will persist with reinstallation.
If you then want to share this UUID across devices, set up your app to use iCloud. You can then store the UUID in NSUserDefaults, sync with KeyValueStore, and then set the UUID in the new devices keychain with the code above.
This answer would get extremely long if I typed code for all the above, but plenty of sample code around here to figure it all out.
Don't forget that in iOS 5 uniqueIdentifier will be deprecated you should use CFUUID instead of that
Interestingly, Apple has since deprecated the uniqueIdentifier in iOS 5 (as gN0Me mentioned). Here's the relevant TechCrunch article:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/19/apple-ios-5-phasing-out-udid/
Apple suggests that you no longer uniquely identify the device but instead identify the user. In most cases, this is excellent advice though there are some situations which still require a globally unique device ID. These scenarios are quite common in advertising. Hence, I wrote an extremely simple drop-in library which replicates the existing behavior exactly.
In a shameless plug of self promotion, I'll link it here in the hope that someone finds it useful. Also, I welcome all and any feedback/criticism:
http://www.binpress.com/app/myid/591
Nevertheless, in your particular situation I would advise skipping the globally unique ID functionality my library provides as it's a bit overkill for your situation. Instead, I would generate a simple CFUUID and store it in NSUserDefaults. This ID would be specific to your application but would allow you to group all the photos for that "app install" in your database.
In other words, by deprecating the uniqueIdentifier method, Apple is suggesting that you don't identify per device but instead per app install. Unless you are operating under specific conditions, chances are the per app ID fits your product better anyway.
This is an interesting problem that I am also looking into solving. Here is a scenario that I would like to address.
What happens when you sell your phone to another person... that Device ID will then belong to somebody else, so even if the app is removed from the iPhone, it could be re-added and all that data would then be re-associated to a new user... this is bad.
Using the Phone number with the Device ID MD5 would be a great solution. Another we came up with is having a SQL Lite DB with some token Hashed with the Device ID. Then when the app is removed the DB is killed and all the data is disassociated. I think that might be too brittle.
Any other ideas?
Rob Ellis (PhoneGap/Nitobi)
Use Apple's GenericKeyChain which is the best solution . Here is the working sample >>https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/samplecode/GenericKeychain/Introduction/Intro.html
Have idea about KeyChainAccess >>https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Security/Conceptual/keychainServConcepts/02concepts/concepts.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000897-CH204-TP9
Haven't done iphone work, but how about taking a hash of something unique to the phone ... oh, say the phone number?
Getting iphone number
snippit:
NSString *phoneNumber = (NSString *) [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] objectForKey:#"SBFormattedPhoneNumber"]; // Will return null in simulator!
NSLog(#"Formatted phone number [%#]", phoneNumber);
I [recently] ran this code as-is on OS 2.2.1 [and OS 3.0].
It works as expected when run on the device, and returns my phone number with the full international dialing codes [ 1 in my case].
When run on the simulator, the value [returned] is a null string, so it only works on an actual iPhone device.
I did not test it on an iPod Touch.
...
Ran this code on a different device this week, and got a null value instead of the number.
On further research, it appears that the number returned by this code snippit is the number that is set up in iTunes for the device.
If you didn’t enter the iPhone’s number in iTunes at device activation, or perhaps (as in my case) if the default value wasn’t the iPhone’s number and you clicked OK anyway, such that iTunes doesn’t list the phone number when your iPhone is plugged in, this code will return a null string.
[Above is an edited concatenation of comments I recently posted to another article on this topic at http://www.alexcurylo.com/blog/2008/11/15/snippet-phone-number/]
Here is some more information on a way to get it from iTunes which may be useful for testing purposes.
I had success with such code:
- (NSString *)stringUniqueID {
NSString * result;
CFUUIDRef uuid;
CFStringRef uuidStr;
uuid = CFUUIDCreate(NULL);
assert(uuid != NULL);
uuidStr = CFUUIDCreateString(NULL, uuid);
assert(uuidStr != NULL);
result = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#", uuidStr];
assert(result != nil);
NSLog(#"UNIQUE ID %#", result);
CFRelease(uuidStr);
CFRelease(uuid);
return result;
}
You can use MAC address as a unique id. Following link will help you
How can I programmatically get the MAC address of an iphone