Unique Identifiers Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Confirmation of Apple rejecting an app for accessing UDID

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 30th, 2012)

Paul Haddad of Tapbots confirmed that Apple is rejecting apps which send out UDIDs. The developer posted a rejection notice for version 2.2 of its popular twitter client Tweetbot. The notice says that Tweetbot was rejected because the "app does not obtain user consent before collecting their ...

DevJuice: Apple begins unique identifier crackdown

by Erica Sadun (Mar 25th, 2012)

The Verge writes that Apple has apparently begun to crack down on apps submitted using the now deprecated UDID (unique device identifier) APIs that allow developers to track individual devices. The programmer interface used to return an alphanumeric string unique to each deployed device. It was ...