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Unique Device ID. A unique identifying number in any iOS device.

Unique Device ID. A unique identifying number in any iOS device.

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An alternative to the device UDID - preparing ourselves

Possible Duplicate: UIDevice uniqueIdentifier Deprecated - What To Do Now? I know there have been quite a few questions on SO about this, but I think that because Apple is moving ahead of schedule and actively denying applications that make use…
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React-Native: Get the same unique device ID after reinstalling the application

I’m writing an app in React-Native and need some help concerning identifying the device after reinstalling the application. What I need: Get a unique device ID for every device for both Android and iOS. The same ID should be returned even if the…
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How to generate Unique ID of device for iPhone/iPad using Objective-c

I wanted to know that How to generate Unique ID of device for iPhone/iPad using Objective-c so that once application is installed on device , so we should track that deviceID I have searched to retrieve IMEI of iPhone/iPad , but it is not allowed…
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How to identify iOS device uniquely instead of using UUID and UDID

In my iOS app, I have to restrict the user to use iOS app per device. To do this I found a solution that we can use the UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) or UDID (Unique Device Identifier). But according to this answer I can't use UUID, because…
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iOS: UDID deprecated... MAC address?

As we know Apple is deprecating developers' access to UDID. But to my knowledge it is possible to get an iDevice's MAC address. So what's the difference then? Both MAC address and UDID are unique identifier of a hardware, which is not app specific.
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Is data stored in NSUserDefaults persists through application updates and on application reinstallation (remove-install)?

It's important to my app, becuase I want to store app UDID there, and Apple recommends to create app specific UDID starting from iOS 5.0.
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ios: How do I add a new UDID to provisioning profile without a tethered device?

I know how to add from the web portal, but this particular provisioning profile is marked as "Managed by Xcode", therefore, I need to either stop managing from xcode or add a UDID into the profile from Xcode. I cannot find any way to "stop managing"…
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How to identify unique users without using a login system (iOS)

I need to have a way to identify the users of my app, but without having a login system. I looked into the UUID which gives me part of an answer to my problem, but as it's not the real UDID, it's not "really unique" : if the user re-installs the…
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Alternative way to create lifetime unique id

I want to create UDID for iphone/ipad device which will remain unchanged, so please tell me if any one have idea for that? I have search around google and stack-overflow, but not got solution. Also some suggested to use OpenUDID and CFUUID, but…
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How OpenUDID works

Do you know how OpenUDID generate unique device ID? Is there any chance that 2 devices having the same OpenUDID value? EDIT 1: Will the OpenUDID change when the device is reset? EDIT 2: If collision is possible, is there any alternative for…
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where to find iPhone device UDID? if iTunes expected to be retired by macOS 10.15, expected to be announced in wwdc19

I have been using iTunes to find my iPhone device UDID for iOS development, iTunes is expected to be retired in macOS 10.15 expected to be announced in wwdc19 on June 03. where else in my Mac I can find the device UDID? please list all the possible…
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What to use if not "IPHONE UDID"?

Wow... look at all the "panic stories" online this week regarding using an iPhone's UDID. [[UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueIdentifier] What SHOULD we be using instead? What if the phone is sold to another user... and an app has stored some data on…
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Android UDID like IPhone?

Does Android have a UDID like IPhone? If yes, is there a way I can get it programatically? Thanks Chris
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iOS dev center certificates, identifiers & profiles gets stuck in loading screen

I have this very frustrating issue with iOS dev center. Every time I want to add a new iOS-device by its UDID the site gets stuck in the loading screen. This same problem occurs when I want to change an existing distribution profile. The site just…
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How to detect if any external libraries are calling [UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueIdentifier]?

So, since Apple is now rejecting apps that access UDID, on our company's current project, we need to eliminate all APIs that make a call to this property: [[UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueIdentifier] We have eliminated all the calls in our own code,…
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