Wed. Jul 15th, 2020

Apple To Block Developer Access To UDID’s In iOS 5

Today Apple released the 6th Beta of their upcoming iOS 5. This Beta release was not same as the previous ones. In this Beta Apple made some changes for the Developers which was noted by TechCrunch. Apple has notified the Developers that it is deprecating access to the UDID (UniqueIdentifierID) which is a Alpha Numeric ID for each iDevice.

Below is the note given out to developers by Apple.

Apple has recommend the developers that they should start to make their own UDID. One Industry C.E.O States that:


It is also noted that UDID’s are a Security Threat as marketers who want h pylori treatment and advertisers because they could gather your personal data through different apps.