ios - How to determine the current iPhone/device model?

Question

Is there a way to get the device model name (iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPhone 5S, etc) in Swift?

I know there is a property named UIDevice.currentDevice().model but it only returns device type (iPod touch, iPhone, iPad, iPhone Simulator, etc).

I also know it can be done easily in Objective-C with this method:

#import <sys/utsname.h>

struct utsname systemInfo;
uname(&systemInfo);

NSString* deviceModel = [NSString stringWithCString:systemInfo.machine
                          encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

But I'm developing my iPhone app in Swift so could someone please help me with the equivalent way to solve this in Swift?

Answer 1

I made this "pure Swift" extension on UIDevice.

This version works in Swift 2 or higher If you use an earlier version please use an older version of my answer.

If you are looking for a more elegant solution you can use my μ-framework DeviceKit published on GitHub (also available via CocoaPods, Carthage and Swift Package Manager).

Here's the code:

import UIKit

public extension UIDevice {

    static let modelName: String = {
        var systemInfo = utsname()
        uname(&systemInfo)
        let machineMirror = Mirror(reflecting: systemInfo.machine)
        let identifier = machineMirror.children.reduce("") { identifier, element in
            guard let value = element.value as? Int8, value != 0 else { return identifier }
            return identifier + String(UnicodeScalar(UInt8(value)))
        }

        func mapToDevice(identifier: String) -> String { // swiftlint:disable:this cyclomatic_complexity
            #if os(iOS)
            switch identifier {
            case "iPod5,1":                                       return "iPod touch (5th generation)"
            case "iPod7,1":                                       return "iPod touch (6th generation)"
            case "iPod9,1":                                       return "iPod touch (7th generation)"
            case "iPhone3,1", "iPhone3,2", "iPhone3,3":           return "iPhone 4"
            case "iPhone4,1":                                     return "iPhone 4s"
            case "iPhone5,1", "iPhone5,2":                        return "iPhone 5"
            case "iPhone5,3", "iPhone5,4":                        return "iPhone 5c"
            case "iPhone6,1", "iPhone6,2":                        return "iPhone 5s"
            case "iPhone7,2":                                     return "iPhone 6"
            case "iPhone7,1":                                     return "iPhone 6 Plus"
            case "iPhone8,1":                                     return "iPhone 6s"
            case "iPhone8,2":                                     return "iPhone 6s Plus"
            case "iPhone8,4":                                     return "iPhone SE"
            case "iPhone9,1", "iPhone9,3":                        return "iPhone 7"
            case "iPhone9,2", "iPhone9,4":                        return "iPhone 7 Plus"
            case "iPhone10,1", "iPhone10,4":                      return "iPhone 8"
            case "iPhone10,2", "iPhone10,5":                      return "iPhone 8 Plus"
            case "iPhone10,3", "iPhone10,6":                      return "iPhone X"
            case "iPhone11,2":                                    return "iPhone XS"
            case "iPhone11,4", "iPhone11,6":                      return "iPhone XS Max"
            case "iPhone11,8":                                    return "iPhone XR"
            case "iPhone12,1":                                    return "iPhone 11"
            case "iPhone12,3":                                    return "iPhone 11 Pro"
            case "iPhone12,5":                                    return "iPhone 11 Pro Max"
            case "iPhone12,8":                                    return "iPhone SE (2nd generation)"
            case "iPhone13,1":                                    return "iPhone 12 mini"
            case "iPhone13,2":                                    return "iPhone 12"
            case "iPhone13,3":                                    return "iPhone 12 Pro"
            case "iPhone13,4":                                    return "iPhone 12 Pro Max"
            case "iPhone14,4":                                    return "iPhone 13 mini"
            case "iPhone14,5":                                    return "iPhone 13"
            case "iPhone14,2":                                    return "iPhone 13 Pro"
            case "iPhone14,3":                                    return "iPhone 13 Pro Max"
            case "iPad2,1", "iPad2,2", "iPad2,3", "iPad2,4":      return "iPad 2"
            case "iPad3,1", "iPad3,2", "iPad3,3":                 return "iPad (3rd generation)"
            case "iPad3,4", "iPad3,5", "iPad3,6":                 return "iPad (4th generation)"
            case "iPad6,11", "iPad6,12":                          return "iPad (5th generation)"
            case "iPad7,5", "iPad7,6":                            return "iPad (6th generation)"
            case "iPad7,11", "iPad7,12":                          return "iPad (7th generation)"
            case "iPad11,6", "iPad11,7":                          return "iPad (8th generation)"
            case "iPad12,1", "iPad12,2":                          return "iPad (9th generation)"
            case "iPad4,1", "iPad4,2", "iPad4,3":                 return "iPad Air"
            case "iPad5,3", "iPad5,4":                            return "iPad Air 2"
            case "iPad11,3", "iPad11,4":                          return "iPad Air (3rd generation)"
            case "iPad13,1", "iPad13,2":                          return "iPad Air (4th generation)"
            case "iPad2,5", "iPad2,6", "iPad2,7":                 return "iPad mini"
            case "iPad4,4", "iPad4,5", "iPad4,6":                 return "iPad mini 2"
            case "iPad4,7", "iPad4,8", "iPad4,9":                 return "iPad mini 3"
            case "iPad5,1", "iPad5,2":                            return "iPad mini 4"
            case "iPad11,1", "iPad11,2":                          return "iPad mini (5th generation)"
            case "iPad14,1", "iPad14,2":                          return "iPad mini (6th generation)"
            case "iPad6,3", "iPad6,4":                            return "iPad Pro (9.7-inch)"
            case "iPad7,3", "iPad7,4":                            return "iPad Pro (10.5-inch)"
            case "iPad8,1", "iPad8,2", "iPad8,3", "iPad8,4":      return "iPad Pro (11-inch) (1st generation)"
            case "iPad8,9", "iPad8,10":                           return "iPad Pro (11-inch) (2nd generation)"
            case "iPad13,4", "iPad13,5", "iPad13,6", "iPad13,7":  return "iPad Pro (11-inch) (3rd generation)"
            case "iPad6,7", "iPad6,8":                            return "iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (1st generation)"
            case "iPad7,1", "iPad7,2":                            return "iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (2nd generation)"
            case "iPad8,5", "iPad8,6", "iPad8,7", "iPad8,8":      return "iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (3rd generation)"
            case "iPad8,11", "iPad8,12":                          return "iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (4th generation)"
            case "iPad13,8", "iPad13,9", "iPad13,10", "iPad13,11":return "iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation)"
            case "AppleTV5,3":                                    return "Apple TV"
            case "AppleTV6,2":                                    return "Apple TV 4K"
            case "AudioAccessory1,1":                             return "HomePod"
            case "AudioAccessory5,1":                             return "HomePod mini"
            case "i386", "x86_64":                                return "Simulator (mapToDevice(identifier: ProcessInfo().environment["SIMULATOR_MODEL_IDENTIFIER"] ?? "iOS"))"
            default:                                              return identifier
            }
            #elseif os(tvOS)
            switch identifier {
            case "AppleTV5,3": return "Apple TV 4"
            case "AppleTV6,2": return "Apple TV 4K"
            case "i386", "x86_64": return "Simulator (mapToDevice(identifier: ProcessInfo().environment["SIMULATOR_MODEL_IDENTIFIER"] ?? "tvOS"))"
            default: return identifier
            }
            #endif
        }

        return mapToDevice(identifier: identifier)
    }()

}

You call it like this:

let modelName = UIDevice.modelName

For real devices it returns e.g. "iPad Pro 9.7 Inch", for simulators it returns "Simulator " + Simulator identifier, e.g. "Simulator iPad Pro 9.7 Inch"