In iOS 16, UIDevice.name has changed to only return the model of the device, not the user specified name.
There is an entitlement, com.apple.developer.device-information.user-assigned-device-name that can be requested to keep the old behaviour, but I can't find any info on how to request that entitlement.
Anyone able to help?
Having now submitted several privacy entitlement requests, I am receiving the following answers from Apple:
"Thank you for your interest in the user-assigned device name entitlement. We need more information in order to review your request. Please review the entitlement documentation and provide screenshots of your app to show that the user-assigned device name is visible to the user."
Well, I would have loved to upload that screenshot in the first place, but the application form did not provide a possibility for that.
Now, that I still would love to upload that screenshot, Apple (still) does not tell me WHERE to upload it (the documentation page does not tell).
Does someone else have this information? ;-)
You got that response via email, right? If so, reply to that and attach the screen shots to your reply.
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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
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We already added the entitlement, do you know if any other step is needed to be able to see the Device Name?
Using this entitlement is like using any other entitlement:
You must claim the entitlement by listing it in your app’s code signature.
To authorise that claim, it must be listed in your app’s provisioning profile.
If you don’t do 1, nothing happens regardless of 2.
If you do 1 but not 2, your app won’t launch.
To debug this, first check for 1 by dumping the entitlements claimed by your app:
Build the app.
Choose Product > Show Build Folder in Finder.
Navigate to the app.
In Terminal, run this command against the built app:
% codesign -d --entitlements - /path/to/your.app
What do you see?
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How long should we expect to wait for approval? I submitted a request last week and am still waiting to hear back.
Hi, I've just received the authorization for the User Assigned Device Name. I checked in the App ID Configuration. In Xcode, in Singing and capabilities, when I select the info icon in the provisioning profile, I see the entitlement. I've added the entitlement in the plist of entitlements of the app with the value true, but I'm getting this error
/Users/XXXXXX/XXXXX/XXXX/XXXXX/XXXXX.xcodeproj error project: Provisioning profile "iOS Team Provisioning Profile: ***.xxxxx.XXXXXX" doesn't match the entitlements file's value for the com.apple.developer.device-information.user-assigned-device-name entitlement.
Anyone can help me, please. I've found the documentation about it confusing.
Thanx
I recommend that you start a new thread for this. The focus of this thread is folks trying to get access to this capability, and I’d rather not dilute that with a bunch of talk about how to use it once you have it.
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I also can't get the user-assigned device name to work on iOS 16. I applied for the entitlement, and received approval, and verified the entitlement is now present in my app ID and provisioning profile, and it still doesn't extract the device name in iOS 16. It still says only "iPad".
I created the app id and provisioning profile in my developer account and included the entitlement. When I download the profile and install in Xcode on a machine running Big Sur using Xcode 13.2.1, Xcode shows that I have the entitlement in the profile when I click the little information icon next to the Provisioning Profile name in the Signing and Capabilities section. When I do the same on a machine running Monterey and Xcode 14.1, the entitlement has disappeared from the profile.
Can you help? (this is an Enterprise developer account)
Solved. It turns out that when you create a new Entitlements.plist file, Xcode doesn't know about it even though it shows up in the project navigator until you put it's path in the code-sign entitlements section of the Build Settings. Once I did this it worked in iOS 16.
Summary: Apply for entitlement with Apple (must be developer account's owner) Receive approval from Apple Add entitlement to app ID (under Additional Capabilities tab) Make sure the Provisioning Profile uses that app ID and lists the entitlement Add a Entitlements.plist to the Xcode project and set it's path in Build Settings Put the entitlement name in Entitlements.plist file (com.apple.developer.device-information.user-assigned-device-name Boolean YES) Build and run the app
For anyone else who winds up here look to use the entitlement once approved and correctly assigned to your profile, here's what worked for me.
Xcode > Target > Build Settings > Signing > Code Signing Entitlements > YourApp/YourApp.entitlements
Find this .entitlements file in your preferred code editor and add the following under <dict>
<key>com.apple.developer.device-information.user-assigned-device-name</key>
<true/>
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How are people getting their entitlement request approved? We have submitted four entitlement requests and had email exchanges with three or four different people at Apple and nobody has been able to help us at all. Any advice?
kinshuk1234, good question. I have requested the entitlement before and have gotten it. But now, no matter what I do, I cannot get the entitlement. DTS doesn't no, no one knows. Apple wants you to guess and guess. NO HELP AT ALL.
Screenshots don't help, answering every question clearly doesn't help. DTS cannot help. In other words, you cannot even pay to get help. I guess this is the way Apple treats their developers.