how to get phone's model name in swift

Question

I've been searching a while about this and I've found out that this can't be get from UIDevice.current.model, because it returns just iPhone. there were several answers pointing to this code:

if let simulatorModelIdentifier = ProcessInfo().environment["SIMULATOR_MODEL_IDENTIFIER"] { 
    return simulatorModelIdentifier 
}

var sysinfo = utsname()
uname(&sysinfo) // ignore return value
let deviceModel = String(bytes: Data(bytes: &sysinfo.machine, count: Int(_SYS_NAMELEN)), encoding: .ascii)?.trimmingCharacters(in: .controlCharacters)

return deviceModel ?? ""

by the way I'm not sure that this uses public or private api and it seems like private api for me.

Question is this code using any private api?

Have you check this answer? https://stackoverflow.com/a/11197770/6678991 — Mahdi-Malv, Oct 16 '19 at 11:51
Did you check all the answers in the attached question by @Mahdi-Malv? There are correct solution to get the right code and mapping from code to model name. — Kamran, Oct 16 '19 at 12:13
yea, I've already upvoted @Mahdi-Malv 's comment. by the way Gael 's answer is all I wanted to know — Jafar Khoshtabiat, Oct 16 '19 at 12:24

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 16 '19 at 12:11

Your code does not use any private API.

uname function returns a POSIX structure containing name and information about current kernel. The machine variable contains an hardware identifier. You'll need to convert this identifier to a more friendly name, but that's all.

You can use man uname in your terminal for more information about the function.

how to get phone's model name in swift

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