Apps are not permitted to access the UDID [duplicate]

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Apps are not permitted to access the UDID and must not use the uniqueIdentifier method of UIDevice (8 answers)

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I am facing this issue while submitting the app to the iTunes Connect as

I have tried this links, which were not helpful for me.

Link 1 Link 2 Link 3

Kindly review your thoughts. Thanks!

Answer 1

UDID is deprecated, and it's use is no longer allowed, you must use UUID.

It has drawbacks and benefits compared with UDID.

- (NSString *)uuidString {
// Returns a UUID

    CFUUIDRef uuid = CFUUIDCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault);
    NSString *uuidStr = (__bridge_transfer NSString *)CFUUIDCreateString(kCFAllocatorDefault, uuid);


    return uuidStr;
}

• UDID always returned a unique and consistent ID. UUID whilst unique will return different every time. You need to store in user defaults or whereever and only generate if it's not already there.

Answer 2

According to Apple guidelines you should use advertisingIdentifier. Problem that in iOS 5 it's not working. Feel free to use this code:

- (NSString *) advertisingIdentifier
{
    if (!NSClassFromString(@"ASIdentifierManager")) {
        SEL selector = NSSelectorFromString(@"uniqueIdentifier");
        if ([[UIDevice currentDevice] respondsToSelector:selector]) {
            return [[UIDevice currentDevice] performSelector:selector];
        }
        //or get macaddress here http://iosdevelopertips.com/device/determine-mac-address.html
    }
    return [[[ASIdentifierManager sharedManager] advertisingIdentifier] UUIDString];
}