Getting more information about your iOS device

Oct 27, '11 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: Netdude21

I just came across this today by accident. As we all know we can get the Serial Number of our Macs and the Build number of the version of Mac OS X that we are using in the About This Mac window.

The same trick works in iTunes for iOS devices, and here's how:

In iTunes under the Devices section you will see your iOS Device listed click on the name of the device and make sure you have the Summary tab selected, move your cursor to Software Version and left-click, it will change to Build Version and if you click on Serial Number, you'll get the UDID Number of the device.

Now this trick will only work for the iPhone but if you click on your Phone Number, you'll get the IMEI and ICCID. I think this is useful information to know in case you talk to your wireless provider or Apple tech support.

[crarko adds: This may have been around for a while, but I didn't notice it before. It's more important than before since beginning with iOS 5 the UDID is becoming harder, if not impossible, for 3rd-party developers to fetch. There are cases, like using an ad-hoc install certificate, where that's needed. Unfortunately, it look like iTunes doesn't let you Copy this data out easily.

On my Verizon iPhone, it shows the MEID instead of the IMEI/ICCID.]

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