It has just come to light that the UIDevice uniqueIdentifier property is deprecated in iOS 5 and unavailable in iOS 7 and above. No alternative method or pr
Based on the link proposed by @moonlight, i did several tests and it seems to be the best solution. As @DarkDust says the method goes to check en0
which is always available.
There are 2 options:
uniqueDeviceIdentifier
(MD5 of MAC+CFBundleIdentifier)
and uniqueGlobalDeviceIdentifier
(MD5 of the MAC), these always returns the same values.
Below the tests i've done (with the real device):
#import "UIDevice+IdentifierAddition.h"
NSLog(@"%@",[[UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueDeviceIdentifier]);
NSLog(@"%@",[[UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueGlobalDeviceIdentifier]);
XXXX21f1f19edff198e2a2356bf4XXXX - (WIFI)UDID
XXXX7dc3c577446a2bcbd77935bdXXXX - (WIFI)GlobalAppUDIDXXXX21f1f19edff198e2a2356bf4XXXX - (3G)UDID
XXXX7dc3c577446a2bcbd77935bdXXXX - (3G)GlobalAppUDIDXXXX21f1f19edff198e2a2356bf4XXXX - (GPRS)UDID
XXXX7dc3c577446a2bcbd77935bdXXXX - (GPRS)GlobalAppUDIDXXXX21f1f19edff198e2a2356bf4XXXX - (AirPlane mode)UDID
XXXX7dc3c577446a2bcbd77935bdXXXX - (AirPlane mode)GlobalAppUDIDXXXX21f1f19edff198e2a2356bf4XXXX - (Wi-Fi)after removing and reinstalling the app XXXX7dc3c577446a2bcbd77935bdXXXX (Wi-Fi) after removing and installing the app
Hope it's useful.
EDIT:
As others pointed out, this solution in iOS 7 is no longer useful since uniqueIdentifier
is no longer available and querying for MAC address now returns always 02:00:00:00:00:00