How to determine the current iPhone/device model (swift)

Mr.Javed Multani
2 min readMay 11, 2022
let modelName = UIDevice.current.modelName

Simply just extension in the project and you can use it

import UIKit

public extension UIDevice {

/// pares the deveice name as the standard name
var modelName: String {

#if targetEnvironment(simulator)
let identifier = ProcessInfo().environment["SIMULATOR_MODEL_IDENTIFIER"]!
#else
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)))
}
#endif

switch identifier {
case "iPod5,1": return "iPod Touch 5"
case "iPod7,1": return "iPod Touch 6"
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 "iPhone9,1", "iPhone9,3": return "iPhone 7"
case "iPhone9,2", "iPhone9,4": return "iPhone 7 Plus"
case "iPhone8,4": return "iPhone SE"
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"
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