How do you get an iPhone's device name

Question

If you open Settings -> General -> About, it'll say Bob's iPhone at the top of the screen. How do you programmatically grab that name?

Assessor

Answer 1

From the UIDevice class:

Swift version:

UIDevice.current.name

Objective-C version:

[[UIDevice currentDevice] name];

The UIDevice is a class that provides information about the iPhone or iPod Touch device.

Some of the information provided by UIDevice is static, such as device name or system version.

source: http://servin.com/iphone/uidevice/iPhone-UIDevice.html

Offical Documentation: Apple Developer Documentation > UIDevice Class Reference

Hinterland

Be careful: the tutorial at that link, while quite useful, is aimed at OS 2.2, and uses some methods that are deprecated in 3.0. – Showroom

@Tim: You are absolutely right. I didn't think of that. Though, I wasn't suggesting the tutorial; I was simply providing my source of information plus a source for more information. – Hinterland

@FrankV What permissions should I request from the user in order to get myMusicAppName to change his Iphone name? How do I do that in Swift? Thank you – Acuminate

Answer 2

In addition to the above answer, this is the actual code:

[[UIDevice currentDevice] name];

Frostbitten

Answer 3

Remember: import UIKit

Swift:

UIDevice.currentDevice().name

Swift 3, 4, 5:

UIDevice.current.name

Scrunch

Must have import UIKit – Duffel

swift 5.1: UIDevice.current.name – Dusty

Yes, UIDevice.current.name worked for me in Swift 5. Similarly I can tap into .model .batteryLevel etc Thanks! – Anchorage

UIDevice.current.name its not work under iOS16 (beta3) – Resurrection

Answer 4

Here is class structure of UIDevice

+ (UIDevice *)currentDevice;

@property(nonatomic,readonly,strong) NSString    *name;              // e.g. "My iPhone"
@property(nonatomic,readonly,strong) NSString    *model;             // e.g. @"iPhone", @"iPod touch"
@property(nonatomic,readonly,strong) NSString    *localizedModel;    // localized version of model
@property(nonatomic,readonly,strong) NSString    *systemName;        // e.g. @"iOS"
@property(nonatomic,readonly,strong) NSString    *systemVersion;

Gaiser

Answer 5

Unfortunately from iOS 16 onwards you need a special entitlement. You can request it here: https://developer.apple.com/contact/request/user-assigned-device-name/

Nanna

Answer 6

For swift4.0 and above used below code:

    let udid = UIDevice.current.identifierForVendor?.uuidString
    let name = UIDevice.current.name
    let version = UIDevice.current.systemVersion
    let modelName = UIDevice.current.model
    let osName = UIDevice.current.systemName
    let localized = UIDevice.current.localizedModel
    
    print(udid ?? "") // ABCDEF01-0123-ABCD-0123-ABCDEF012345
    print(name)       // Name's iPhone
    print(version)    // 14.5
    print(modelName)  // iPhone
    print(osName)     // iOS
    print(localized)  // iPhone

Poleyn

this is great. so helful. – Wenda

UIDevice.current.name its not work under iOS16 (beta3), Apple changed again. – Resurrection

Answer 7

For xamarin user, use this

UIKit.UIDevice.CurrentDevice.Name

Dashtilut

Thank you. For Swift 3 : UIDevice.current.name – Berkey

Answer 8

For Swift 4+ versions, please use the below code:

UIDevice.current.name

Nannienanning

Answer 9

To get an iPhone's device name programmatically

 UIDevice *deviceInfo = [UIDevice currentDevice];

 NSLog(@"Device name:  %@", deviceInfo.name); 

// Device name: my iPod

Outgoing

Answer 10

Device Name would not work out of Box now, Need to have a special entitlement.

Entitlement : com.apple.developer.device-information.user-assigned-device-name

Doc : https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/708275

Official : https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uidevice/1620015-name

Robenarobenia

Answer 11

In Unity, using C#:

SystemInfo.deviceName;

Caduceus

Answer 12

As of iOS 16 name cannot be used for that and unfortunately I couldn't find an alternative. From UIKit.UIDevice:

open var name: String { get } // Synonym for model. Prior to iOS 16, user-assigned device name (e.g. @"My iPhone").

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