Question
Is there a way to get the device model name (iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPhone 5S, etc) in Swift?
I know there is a property named UIDevice.currentDevice().model but it only
returns device type (iPod touch, iPhone, iPad, iPhone Simulator, etc).
I also know it can be done easily in Objective-C with this method:
#import <sys/utsname.h>
struct utsname systemInfo;
uname(&systemInfo);
NSString* deviceModel = [NSString stringWithCString:systemInfo.machine
encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
But I'm developing my iPhone app in Swift so could someone please help me with the equivalent way to solve this in Swift?
Answer
I made this "pure Swift" extension on
UIDevice.
If you are looking for a more elegant solution you can use my µ-framework
DeviceKit published on GitHub
(also available via CocoaPods, Carthage and Swift Package Manager).
Here's the code:
import UIKit
public extension UIDevice {
static let modelName: String = {
var systemInfo = utsname()
uname(&systemInfo)
let machineMirror = Mirror(reflecting: systemInfo.machine)
let identifier = machineMirror.children.reduce("") { identifier, element in
guard let value = element.value as? Int8, value != 0 else { return identifier }
return identifier + String(UnicodeScalar(UInt8(value)))
}
func mapToDevice(identifier: String) -> String { // swiftlint:disable:this cyclomatic_complexity
#if os(iOS)
switch identifier {
case "iPod5,1": return "iPod touch (5th generation)"
case "iPod7,1": return "iPod touch (6th generation)"
case "iPod9,1": return "iPod touch (7th generation)"
case "iPhone3,1", "iPhone3,2", "iPhone3,3": return "iPhone 4"
case "iPhone4,1": return "iPhone 4s"
case "iPhone5,1", "iPhone5,2": return "iPhone 5"
case "iPhone5,3", "iPhone5,4": return "iPhone 5c"
case "iPhone6,1", "iPhone6,2": return "iPhone 5s"
case "iPhone7,2": return "iPhone 6"
case "iPhone7,1": return "iPhone 6 Plus"
case "iPhone8,1": return "iPhone 6s"
case "iPhone8,2": return "iPhone 6s Plus"
case "iPhone9,1", "iPhone9,3": return "iPhone 7"
case "iPhone9,2", "iPhone9,4": return "iPhone 7 Plus"
case "iPhone10,1", "iPhone10,4": return "iPhone 8"
case "iPhone10,2", "iPhone10,5": return "iPhone 8 Plus"
case "iPhone10,3", "iPhone10,6": return "iPhone X"
case "iPhone11,2": return "iPhone XS"
case "iPhone11,4", "iPhone11,6": return "iPhone XS Max"
case "iPhone11,8": return "iPhone XR"
case "iPhone12,1": return "iPhone 11"
case "iPhone12,3": return "iPhone 11 Pro"
case "iPhone12,5": return "iPhone 11 Pro Max"
case "iPhone13,1": return "iPhone 12 mini"
case "iPhone13,2": return "iPhone 12"
case "iPhone13,3": return "iPhone 12 Pro"
case "iPhone13,4": return "iPhone 12 Pro Max"
case "iPhone14,4": return "iPhone 13 mini"
case "iPhone14,5": return "iPhone 13"
case "iPhone14,2": return "iPhone 13 Pro"
case "iPhone14,3": return "iPhone 13 Pro Max"
case "iPhone14,7": return "iPhone 14"
case "iPhone14,8": return "iPhone 14 Plus"
case "iPhone15,2": return "iPhone 14 Pro"
case "iPhone15,3": return "iPhone 14 Pro Max"
case "iPhone15,4": return "iPhone 15"
case "iPhone15,5": return "iPhone 15 Plus"
case "iPhone16,1": return "iPhone 15 Pro"
case "iPhone16,2": return "iPhone 15 Pro Max"
case "iPhone8,4": return "iPhone SE"
case "iPhone12,8": return "iPhone SE (2nd generation)"
case "iPhone14,6": return "iPhone SE (3rd generation)"
case "iPad2,1", "iPad2,2", "iPad2,3", "iPad2,4": return "iPad 2"
case "iPad3,1", "iPad3,2", "iPad3,3": return "iPad (3rd generation)"
case "iPad3,4", "iPad3,5", "iPad3,6": return "iPad (4th generation)"
case "iPad6,11", "iPad6,12": return "iPad (5th generation)"
case "iPad7,5", "iPad7,6": return "iPad (6th generation)"
case "iPad7,11", "iPad7,12": return "iPad (7th generation)"
case "iPad11,6", "iPad11,7": return "iPad (8th generation)"
case "iPad12,1", "iPad12,2": return "iPad (9th generation)"
case "iPad13,18", "iPad13,19": return "iPad (10th generation)"
case "iPad4,1", "iPad4,2", "iPad4,3": return "iPad Air"
case "iPad5,3", "iPad5,4": return "iPad Air 2"
case "iPad11,3", "iPad11,4": return "iPad Air (3rd generation)"
case "iPad13,1", "iPad13,2": return "iPad Air (4th generation)"
case "iPad13,16", "iPad13,17": return "iPad Air (5th generation)"
case "iPad2,5", "iPad2,6", "iPad2,7": return "iPad mini"
case "iPad4,4", "iPad4,5", "iPad4,6": return "iPad mini 2"
case "iPad4,7", "iPad4,8", "iPad4,9": return "iPad mini 3"
case "iPad5,1", "iPad5,2": return "iPad mini 4"
case "iPad11,1", "iPad11,2": return "iPad mini (5th generation)"
case "iPad14,1", "iPad14,2": return "iPad mini (6th generation)"
case "iPad6,3", "iPad6,4": return "iPad Pro (9.7-inch)"
case "iPad7,3", "iPad7,4": return "iPad Pro (10.5-inch)"
case "iPad8,1", "iPad8,2", "iPad8,3", "iPad8,4": return "iPad Pro (11-inch) (1st generation)"
case "iPad8,9", "iPad8,10": return "iPad Pro (11-inch) (2nd generation)"
case "iPad13,4", "iPad13,5", "iPad13,6", "iPad13,7": return "iPad Pro (11-inch) (3rd generation)"
case "iPad14,3", "iPad14,4": return "iPad Pro (11-inch) (4th generation)"
case "iPad6,7", "iPad6,8": return "iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (1st generation)"
case "iPad7,1", "iPad7,2": return "iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (2nd generation)"
case "iPad8,5", "iPad8,6", "iPad8,7", "iPad8,8": return "iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (3rd generation)"
case "iPad8,11", "iPad8,12": return "iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (4th generation)"
case "iPad13,8", "iPad13,9", "iPad13,10", "iPad13,11":return "iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation)"
case "iPad14,5", "iPad14,6": return "iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (6th generation)"
case "AppleTV5,3": return "Apple TV"
case "AppleTV6,2": return "Apple TV 4K"
case "AudioAccessory1,1": return "HomePod"
case "AudioAccessory5,1": return "HomePod mini"
case "i386", "x86_64", "arm64": return "Simulator \(mapToDevice(identifier: ProcessInfo().environment["SIMULATOR_MODEL_IDENTIFIER"] ?? "iOS"))"
default: return identifier
}
#elseif os(tvOS)
switch identifier {
case "AppleTV5,3": return "Apple TV 4"
case "AppleTV6,2": return "Apple TV 4K"
case "i386", "x86_64": return "Simulator \(mapToDevice(identifier: ProcessInfo().environment["SIMULATOR_MODEL_IDENTIFIER"] ?? "tvOS"))"
default: return identifier
}
#endif
}
return mapToDevice(identifier: identifier)
}()
}
You call it like this:
let modelName = UIDevice.modelName
For real devices it returns e.g. "iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation)", for simulators it returns e.g. "Simulator iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation)"
Here's the model references:
