Is there a way since iOS 7 s release to get the UDID without using iTunes on a PC Mac

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I m developing an app for my company and we re going through the process of slowly letting people into the  beta  by adding their iPads to the company s iOS Dev Center accounts  From there we do an ad hoc build for local Intranet distribution   At my last gig  I would direct people to one of those  find my UDID for me  apps  then get them to send me the UDID it found    iOS 7 has cut this off - those apps are all gone now and if you do still have one  it returns some GUID that has nothing to do with the UDID    So what I m having to do is connect each of these things to my Mac  then get the UDID from iTunes  which is kind of a hassle  but less tedious than trying to explain to them how to get it from iTunes  assuming they even have it installed   And sometimes it tries to sync with my Mac  which doesn t seem to have any effect other than putting on provisioning profiles I don t want on the device  And at least once I ve had an iPad just suddenly decide to upgrade itself from iOS 6 to iOS 7 which I m not sure is related to being plugged in  and in this case the user didn t want it upgraded     So is there any other way to get the UDID from the iPad other than plugging it into a machine    TO BE CLEAR  I m not trying to get the UDID in an app  I m just trying to think of the quickest way to get the UDID to add to the device list in our developer profile for distribution

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I have been using iPhone Configuration Utility to read the UDIDs and install the Development app  Still works fine on iOS7

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Plug it in  and run this from the command line   system profiler SPUSBDataType   Look for   Serial Number  xxxx

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Here s my research results   Apple has hidden the UDID from all public APIs  starting with iOS 7   Any UDID that begins with FFFF is a fake ID   The  Send UDID  apps that previously worked can no longer be used to gather UDID for test devices    sigh    The UDID is shown when a device is connected to XCode  in the organizer   and when the device is connected to iTunes  although you have to click on  Serial Number  to get the Identifier to display     If you need to get the UDID for a device to add to a provisioning profile  and can t do it yourself in XCode  you will have to walk them through the steps to copy paste it from iTunes     UPDATE -- see okiharaherbst s answer below for a script based approach to allow test users to provide you with their device UDIDs by hosting a mobileconfig file on a server

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TestFlight seems to be able to extract the UDID once the user signs up   https   testflightapp com

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Try this online tool http   www easy-udid com  I tested it on various iOS devices  iOS 6 and 7  and it works fine  Handful tool to quickly add customer s UDID in developer s profile

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diawi com has worked for me  no need for connecting iPhone with cable or etc   just follow their  My Device  tab that will lead you to install their provision profile and then display the UDID and add option to send it by Email

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Please  use udid io in your device browser Or Please install iTools and conncet the device to get the correct UDID   Adarsh E M

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Found a nice way to handle it  Add the app to testFlight com and give the link to the user you want his UDID  He will see an error message saying  your device UDID  xxxxxx is not registered  and the UDID will be the correct one

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Please use test flight to obtain UDID from testers but not using untrusted source e g  http   get udid io   You can  1  Invite testers in email from test flight webpage  Testers open the link in email and install a profile from test flight  Therefore developers can obtain UDIDs on the test flight webpage  2  Add those UDIDs on the Apple provisioning portal      Ref  http   help testflightapp com customer portal articles 829537-how-does-it-work-   The process doesn t require testers to use Mac  PC to obtain UDID  more convenient   And I think test flight is a company that can be trusted  no worries when passing UDID to this company     I have tested this method and it works on iOS 8

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Have them create a testflightapp com account   This is very useful for beta testing - which I m guessing is what you need the udids for   You can send them a download link to your app  found in the permissions tap at the bottom of the page  and it will tell them their udid hasn t been validated yet  It will then tell them their udid  They can copy and paste this and text it to you

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I think iTunes looks to be the only answer  which is extremely unfortunate

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Or use my solution here www my-mo co uk device deviceinfo php will let you access UDID and email it to whoever you choose too

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Steps to find the UDID from IPhone and IPad Without Using itunes   Open below link in your iPhone or iPad    -  http   get udid io  Click on the Button Green color - Tap to find UDID Get your UDID will Appear  Click on the right side top INSTALL button   4   UDID will appear Copy the UDID

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We can use identifierForVendor for ios7   - NSString  uniqueIDForDevice       NSString  uniqueIdentifier   nil      if   UIDevice instancesRespondToSelector  selector identifierForVendor           gt  iOS 7         uniqueIdentifier      UIDevice currentDevice  identifierForVendor  UUIDString         else      lt  iOS6  Use UDID of Device                    CFUUIDRef uuid   CFUUIDCreate NULL                 uniqueIdentifier     NSString  CFUUIDCreateString NULL  uuid  - for non- ARC             uniqueIdentifier     NSString  CFBridgingRelease CFUUIDCreateString NULL  uuid      for ARC             CFRelease uuid                    return uniqueIdentifier      --Important Note ---  UDID and identifierForVendor are different ---  1   On uninstalling  and reinstalling the app identifierForVendor will change   2   The value of identifierForVendor remains the same for all the apps installed from the same vendor on the device   3   The value of identifierForVendor also changes for all the apps if any of the app  from same vendor  is reinstalled

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If you are using a mac  you can get the UUID out of the  System Report  available from  About this Mac   With the device attached  open the USB section and click on iPhone   The UUID appears under  Serial Number

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Navigate to http   get udid io  from Safari on your iOS device  It works like a charm and requires neither iTunes nor any other computer  No app installed either   EDIT   Also  have a look at Getting a device UDID from  mobileconfig if you  understandably  would rather have this  mobileconfig certificate hosted on a server of yours    MAKE YOUR OWN   Have a copy of the  mobileconfig example hosted on your server and write 2-3 small scripts in your favorite language to handle the following flow    Navigate on Safari to a URL redirecting to enroll mobileconfig below  This makes iOS open the Settings app and show the profile  Upon accepting the profile  iOS switches back to Safari and posts the DeviceAttributes array to the URL specified enroll mobileconfig  The POST data will contain a  plist file with the requested attributes  see example below   One of which will be the holy UDID    Remark  You should probably have some user friendly messages  Specifically  we even have a step 0  where the user is asked to provide their name and e-mail that we store temporarily in the HTTP session and then redirect the request to the mobileconfig profile  We ultimately match this info with the iPhone data and send a friendly confirmation e-mail  HTH   enroll mobileconfig   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  UTF-8   gt   lt  DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC  -  Apple  DTD PLIST 1 0  EN   http   www apple com DTDs PropertyList-1 0 dtd  gt   lt plist version  1 0  gt       lt dict gt           lt key gt PayloadContent lt  key gt           lt dict gt               lt key gt URL lt  key gt               lt string gt http   support devcorp com uuid returnurl  lt  string gt               lt key gt DeviceAttributes lt  key gt               lt array gt               lt string gt DEVICE NAME lt  string gt               lt string gt UDID lt  string gt               lt string gt PRODUCT lt  string gt               lt string gt VERSION lt  string gt               lt string gt SERIAL lt  string gt               lt  array gt           lt  dict gt           lt key gt PayloadOrganization lt  key gt           lt string gt DevCorp Inc  lt  string gt           lt key gt PayloadDisplayName lt  key gt           lt string gt Profile Service lt  string gt           lt key gt PayloadVersion lt  key gt           lt integer gt 1 lt  integer gt           lt key gt PayloadUUID lt  key gt           lt string gt C5FB9D0D-0BE7-4F98-82CC-5D0EA74F8CF8 lt  string gt   lt  -- any random UUID -- gt           lt key gt PayloadIdentifier lt  key gt           lt string gt com devcorp profile-service lt  string gt           lt key gt PayloadDescription lt  key gt           lt string gt This is a temporary profile to enroll your device for ad-hoc app distribution lt  string gt           lt key gt PayloadType lt  key gt           lt string gt Profile Service lt  string gt       lt  dict gt   lt  plist gt    sample  plist POSTed by the iPhone to the given URL   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  UTF-8   gt   lt  DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC  -  Apple  DTD PLIST 1 0  EN   http   www apple com DTDs PropertyList-1 0 dtd  gt   lt plist version  1 0  gt   lt dict gt       lt key gt PRODUCT lt  key gt       lt string gt iPhone4 1 lt  string gt       lt key gt SERIAL lt  key gt       lt string gt DNPGWR2VCTC0 lt  string gt       lt key gt UDID lt  key gt       lt string gt b01ea7bc2237fed21bfe403c6d2b942ddb3c12c3 lt  string gt       lt key gt VERSION lt  key gt       lt string gt 11A465 lt  string gt   lt  dict gt

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If any of your users are running linux they can use this from a terminal   lsusb -v 2 gt   dev null   grep -e  Apple Inc  -A 2   This gets the all the information for your connected usb devices and prints lines with  Apple Inc  including the next 2 lines   The result looks like this   iManufacturer           1 Apple Inc  iProduct                2 iPad iSerial                 3 7ddf32e17a6ac5ce04a8ecbf782ca509      This has worked for me on iOS5 -  iOS7  I haven   t tried on any iOS4 devices though   IMO this is faster then any Win Mac Browser solution I have found and requires no  software  installation

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Hope this would help    Connect iPhone to your MAC I didn t try this with windows  Click on Apple   s logo on the top left corner   select About This Mac In Overview tab   System Report Hardware in the left column   USB   then on right pane select iPhone in bottom pane -   Serial number      -  And that serial number is UDID

[ios7] Is there a way since (iOS 7's release) to get the UDID without using iTunes on a PC/Mac?

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