Does the use of identifierForVendor reject my app?

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In my project I am using identifierForVendor for unique key for identify iOS device. Will it be approve by Apple or not? Is there are any way to identify iOS device uniquely?

ya apple will approve,but UDID is dynamic – Anbu.Karthik Nov 23 '15 at 06:29 — Anbu.Karthik, Nov 23 '15 at 06:29
Thanks... @Anbu.Karthik – Dhiman Ranjit Dec 03 '15 at 12:09 — Dhiman Ranjit, Dec 03 '15 at 12:09

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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No, Apple will approve your app. identifierForVendor is the way to go after Apple stopped approving apps using UDID. Note that identifierForVendor will be the same for all of your apps per user (if a user has more than one of your apps installed, all of these apps will return the same identifierForVendor).

Another way to go is to create custom UDIDs.

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answered Nov 23 '15 at 06:33

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 23 '15 at 06:41

Apple won't reject your app. It is the current way to uniquely identify a device that have installed your app. But if the user un-installs your app (all apps) and installs again, the identifierForVendor will return an entirely different UUID.

The value in this property remains the same while the app (or another app from the same vendor) is installed on the iOS device. The value changes when the user deletes all of that vendor’s apps from the device and subsequently reinstalls one or more of them. The value can also change when installing test builds using Xcode or when installing an app on a device using ad-hoc distribution. Therefore, if your app stores the value of this property anywhere, you should gracefully handle situations where the identifier changes.

Reference : UIDevice Class Reference

Does the use of identifierForVendor reject my app?

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