Getting the serial number (not UDID) of iphone programmatically

Question

can anyone tell me the way for getting the serial number of an iPhone (not the UDID).

any immediate help will be appreciated..

Answer 1

Code example (this might be outdated) using a non-public API:

http://www.iphonedevforums.com/forum/sdk-coding-help/145-unique-identifier-iphone.html

@implementation AppLib
...

- (NSString*)getSerialNumber
{
    CFTypeRef serialNumberAsCFString;
    io_service_t platformExpert = IOServiceGetMatchingService(
        kIOMasterPortDefault, IOServiceMatching("IOPlatformExpertDevice"));
    if (platformExpert)
        {
            serialNumberAsCFString = IORegistryEntryCreateCFProperty(
                platformExpert, CFSTR(kIOPlatformSerialNumberKey), 
                kCFAllocatorDefault, 0);
        }
    IOObjectRelease(platformExpert);
    NSString *serial = 
        [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@",serialNumberAsCFString];
    return serial;
}

Answer 2

Ready to use category on UIDevice: UIDevice+serialNumber. Not sure this would be accepted on the App Store.

Answer 3

Here i uploaded some code: But probably App store guys won't allow (As per my idea)

#import <dlfcn.h>
#import <mach/port.h>
#import <mach/kern_return.h>

@implementation ViewController

- (NSString *) serialNumber
{
NSString *serialNumber = nil;

void *IOKit = dlopen("/System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/IOKit", RTLD_NOW);
if (IOKit)
{
    mach_port_t *kIOMasterPortDefault = dlsym(IOKit, "kIOMasterPortDefault");
    CFMutableDictionaryRef (*IOServiceMatching)(const char *name) = dlsym(IOKit, "IOServiceMatching");
    mach_port_t (*IOServiceGetMatchingService)(mach_port_t masterPort, CFDictionaryRef matching) = dlsym(IOKit, "IOServiceGetMatchingService");
    CFTypeRef (*IORegistryEntryCreateCFProperty)(mach_port_t entry, CFStringRef key, CFAllocatorRef allocator, uint32_t options) = dlsym(IOKit, "IORegistryEntryCreateCFProperty");
    kern_return_t (*IOObjectRelease)(mach_port_t object) = dlsym(IOKit, "IOObjectRelease");

    if (kIOMasterPortDefault && IOServiceGetMatchingService && IORegistryEntryCreateCFProperty && IOObjectRelease)
    {
        mach_port_t platformExpertDevice = IOServiceGetMatchingService(*kIOMasterPortDefault, IOServiceMatching("IOPlatformExpertDevice"));
        if (platformExpertDevice)
        {
            CFTypeRef platformSerialNumber = IORegistryEntryCreateCFProperty(platformExpertDevice, CFSTR("IOPlatformSerialNumber"), kCFAllocatorDefault, 0);
            if (platformSerialNumber && CFGetTypeID(platformSerialNumber) == CFStringGetTypeID())
            {
                serialNumber = [NSString stringWithString:(__bridge NSString *)platformSerialNumber];
                CFRelease(platformSerialNumber);
            }
            IOObjectRelease(platformExpertDevice);
        }
    }
    dlclose(IOKit);
}
    NSLog(@"Serial number::%@", serialNumber);
  return serialNumber;
 }