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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 will officially start rejecting iOS apps that make use of the unique device ID or UDID, in order to track users. The company informed its developer community of the policy late Thursday ...