Any way to get the name of iPhone user?

Question

Outside of asking the user to input their name, is there any way to get it off the device?

I tried this library, which attempts to extract the name from [UIDev

Answer 1

You could use CloudKit. Following a snippet in Swift (ignoring errors):

let container = CKContainer.defaultContainer()

container.fetchUserRecordIDWithCompletionHandler(
    {
        (recordID, error) in

        container.requestApplicationPermission(
            .PermissionUserDiscoverability,
            {
                (status, error2) in

                if (status == CKApplicationPermissionStatus.Granted)
                {
                    container.discoverUserInfoWithUserRecordID(
                        recordID,
                        completionHandler:
                        {
                            (info, error3) in

                            println("\(info.firstName) \(info.lastName)")
                        }
                    )
                }
            }
        )
    }
)

The above code was based on the code at http://www.snip2code.com/Snippet/109633/CloudKit-User-Info

to save folks time. in swift4:

    let container = CKContainer.default()
    container.fetchUserRecordID(
        completionHandler: {
            (recordID, error) in
            guard let recordID = recordID else {
                return
            }
            container.requestApplicationPermission(
                .userDiscoverability,
                completionHandler: {
                    (status, error2) in

                    if (status == CKContainer_Application_PermissionStatus.granted)
                    {
                        if #available(iOS 10.0, *) {
                            container.discoverUserIdentity(withUserRecordID:
                                recordID,
                                                           completionHandler:
                                {
                                    (info, error3) in
                                    guard let info = info else {
                                        return
                                    }
                                    print("\(info.firstName) \(info.lastName)")
                            }
                            )
                        }
                    }
            }
            )
        }
    )

however: CKUserIdentity no longer exposes either first or last name

So this answer no longer works.