Michelle Steiner

FYI.

-- Michelle

http://hints.macworld.com/article.ph...11021125627134

I just came across this today by accident. As we all know we can get the
Serial Number of our Macs and the Build number of the version of Mac OS X
that we are using in the About This Mac window.Â*

The same trick works in iTunes for iOS devices, and here's how:Â*

In iTunes under the Devices section you will see your iOS Device listed
click on the name of the device and make sure you have the Summary tab
selected, move your cursor to Software Version and left-click, it will
change to Build Version and if you click on Serial Number, you'll get the
UDID Number of the device.Â*

Now this trick will only work for the iPhone but if you click on your Phone
Number, you'll get the IMEI and ICCID. I think this is useful information
to know in case you talk to your wireless provider or Apple tech support.Â*

[crarko adds:Â*This may have been around for a while, but I didn't notice it
before. It's more important than before since beginning with iOS 5 the UDID
is becoming harder, if not impossible, for 3rd-party developers to fetch.
There are cases, like using an ad-hoc install certificate, where that's
needed. Unfortunately, it look like iTunes doesn't let you Copy this data
out easily.Â*

On my Verizon iPhone, it shows the MEID instead of the IMEI/ICCID.]

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In article <michelle-340695.07544627102011@news.eternal-september.org>,
Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

> FYI.
>
> -- Michelle
>
> http://hints.macworld.com/article.ph...11021125627134
>
> I just came across this today by accident. As we all know we can get the
> Serial Number of our Macs and the Build number of the version of Mac OS X
> that we are using in the About This Mac window.Â*
>
> The same trick works in iTunes for iOS devices, and here's how:Â*
>
> In iTunes under the Devices section you will see your iOS Device listed
> click on the name of the device and make sure you have the Summary tab
> selected, move your cursor to Software Version and left-click, it will
> change to Build Version and if you click on Serial Number, you'll get the
> UDID Number of the device.Â*
>
> Now this trick will only work for the iPhone but if you click on your Phone
> Number, you'll get the IMEI and ICCID. I think this is useful information
> to know in case you talk to your wireless provider or Apple tech support.Â*
>
> [crarko adds:Â*This may have been around for a while, but I didn't notice it
> before. It's more important than before since beginning with iOS 5 the UDID
> is becoming harder, if not impossible, for 3rd-party developers to fetch.
> There are cases, like using an ad-hoc install certificate, where that's
> needed. Unfortunately, it look like iTunes doesn't let you Copy this data
> out easily.Â*

Wow, this last paragraph is completely wrong on most of what it says.

- It's still possible and easy for an app to find an iPhone's UDID.
Apple recommends against doing so but has not made any changes to the
system for finding it.

- iTunes does let you copy the device UDID, the same as it always has
since the iPhone shipped. When the UDID is showing, press cmd-C, and you
have copied the UDID.

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Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/