How do you programmatically get the serial number of an iPhone?

Question

I want to know the serial number of my iPhone using my application. I have writen code below.

- (NSString*)getSerialNumber
{
 CFTypeRef serialNumberAsCFString;
         


        

Answer 1

Ready to use category on UIDevice: UIDevice+serialNumber. Not sure this would be accepted on the App Store.

Answer 2

You should change the argument 2 of IORegistryEntryCreateCFProperty from CFSTR (kIOPlatformUUIDKey) to CFSTR (kIOPlatformSerialNumberKey). Then you will get the correct serial number(with length of 11 characters).

Answer 3

Are you linking the IOKit framework?

Try the

id getValue(NSString *iosearch);

function, available at

http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/08/retrieving-device-information.html

You can also use the UIDevice class to retrieve other useful information For instance, you can do:

NSString *id = [[UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueIdentifier];

Other useful properties are the following ones:

  name  
  systemName    
  systemVersion  
  model  
  localizedModel