Many of us feel a deep personal connection with our iPhones, and small wonder: the average person’s smartphone knows more about them than their spouse or significant other. Our iPhones hold our ...

Apple has instructed third-party developers to cease tracking iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch users via the unique serial number associated with each one of its hardware devices. Widespread use of the ...

Apple has informed app developers that it will no longer allow apps to use the unique device identifier or UDID after May 1, according to a post on Apple's developer website. Instead, Apple requests ...

Over a year ago, Apple started warning developers to stop referencing the Universal Device Identifier (UDID) in their apps, eventually rejecting them altogether. This caused a bit of a stir because it ...

Apple has been cracking down on apps that try to use a device’s UDID, a 40-character code that uniquely identifies each device the company sells. The Cupertino company’s apparent turnabout (it used to ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. MoPub, a mobile ad company, claims that Apple's policy of rejecting ads which utilize unique device ...

Each iDevice has a unique device identifier number. You can need your UDID for multiple reasons, including the beta testing of apps and other diagnostic processes. We’ll show you how to quickly find ...

A group of hackers claims to have stolen 12 million Apple device IDs and other user information from an FBI agent’s laptop, and has posted some of the information online. The group, dubbed AntiSec, ...

Apple has informed developers that it will begin officially rejecting newly submitted and updated applications that access the iOS device UDID. Apple says that this new policy will begin on May 1st.