How to find your iPhone or iPad's serial number, UDID, and more in iTunes; How to find your iPhone or iPad's serial number and IMEI in iOS. Both your serial number and your IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) can be used if you need someone else to be able to identify your device, such as when you call Apple support.
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Today I was asked by an agency of a large customer how to discover the UDID (serial number) of an iPad without using iTunes.BackgroundThe reason for wanting the UDID is simple: the agency is creating a test app using and wants to send the customer a branded iOS test app. To do that without hacking (jail-breaking) the iPad, you need the UDID (basically the extended serial number) of the device so you can put that into Apple’s developer portal to create the correct provisioning profiles.Typically you’d plug the iPad into a Mac or Windows computer, launch iTunes and copy the UDID from there (click on the Serial Number field, which displays the UDID, and press Command+C). Here’s what that looks like:The problem is that in many large enterprises, the IT department doesn’t allow personal applications such as iTunes on your computer and also doesn’t allow you to install an application (such as iTunes) yourself.What won’t work (and don’t believe them) — aka fake UDIDThere are many apps in the App Store that promise to give you the UDID. Don’t believe that. Yes, in the past this was possible, however Apple has removed that ability, probably as some app creators misused that and tracked what you were doing (a UDID is a unique number that you can identify).It’s easy to find out if a UDID is fake — if such an app gives you back a UDID starting with “ffff” then it is a fake ID. Both an engineer and a layout artist, Matthias bridges the gap between technology and people.Before joining Quark, Matthias pioneered print, Web, and multimedia products for multiple German publishing companies.
Since 1997 he has played a central role in shaping Quark’s desktop and enterprise software.Starting 2003 Matthias has focused on Quark’s interactive and digital publishing solutions. He is an active participant in design and publishing communities and represents Quark in the Ghent PDF Workgroup.Since February 2014 Matthias heads Quark’s Desktop Publishing business unit and is therefore responsible for QuarkXPress.
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A life‑saving ideaWhen Raghu Vemula first formed the Nuance cross‑functional team that created PowerShare, his goal was to improve the cumbersome and time‑consuming process of sharing radiology imaging among medical providers and hospitals.But he had no way of knowing that his team's innovation would enable a quick‑thinking pediatric care team in Melbourne, FL, to save the life of a newborn by instantly sharing digital X‑rays with the area’s only Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center, which was 70 miles away.
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