Detecting Color of Iphone/Ipad/Ipod Touch

Detecting Color of iPhone/iPad/iPod touch?

There's a private API to retrieve both the DeviceColor and the DeviceEnclosureColor.

UIDevice *device = [UIDevice currentDevice];
SEL selector = NSSelectorFromString(@"deviceInfoForKey:");
if (![device respondsToSelector:selector]) {
    selector = NSSelectorFromString(@"_deviceInfoForKey:");
}
if ([device respondsToSelector:selector]) {
    NSLog(@"DeviceColor: %@ DeviceEnclosureColor: %@", [device performSelector:selector withObject:@"DeviceColor"], [device performSelector:selector withObject:@"DeviceEnclosureColor"]);
}

I've blogged about this and provide a sample app:

http://www.futuretap.com/blog/device-colors/

Warning: As mentioned, this is a private API. Don't use this in App Store builds.

How to detect the colour of an iPhone 5c?

There's a private API to retrieve both the DeviceColor and the DeviceEnclosureColor. In case of the iPhone 5c, the interesting part is the enclosure color (the device color = front color is always #3b3b3c).

UIDevice *device = [UIDevice currentDevice];
SEL selector = NSSelectorFromString(@"deviceInfoForKey:");
if (![device respondsToSelector:selector]) {
    selector = NSSelectorFromString(@"_deviceInfoForKey:");
}
if ([device respondsToSelector:selector]) {
    NSLog(@"DeviceColor: %@ DeviceEnclosureColor: %@", [device performSelector:selector withObject:@"DeviceColor"], [device performSelector:selector withObject:@"DeviceEnclosureColor"]);
}

I've blogged about this and provide a sample app:

http://www.futuretap.com/blog/device-colors/

Warning: As mentioned, this is a private API. Don't use this in App Store builds.

Get iPhone color iOS Sdk

You can obtain color from model part number, for example:

MD381 - black iPhone 4S

MC920 - white iPhone 4S

...

To obtain model number use uidevice-extension

Addition:
Alternative solution. Link your project with libLockdown.dylib.

extern id lockdown_connect();
extern id lockdown_copy_value(id, id, id);
extern void lockdown_disconnect();
extern NSString *kLockdownDeviceColorKey;
NSString* CopyDeviceColor() {
    id connection = lockdown_connect();
    NSString *color = lockdown_copy_value(connection, nil, kLockdownDeviceColorKey);
    NSLog(@"color = %@", color);
    lockdown_disconnect(connection);
    return color;
}

iPhone/iPad enclosure color programmatically

As far I as know, you may be able to determine the color of the phone based off the serial number of the device as discussed here: Detecting Color of iPhone/iPad/iPod touch?

I think your best bet it is to show different models of the phone in different colors then ask the user to pick one.

Good luck.

Differentiate between black and white iPhones?

The serial number on the iPhone gives you all this info, you just need to map the code for colour to the colour itself.

Typical format of the iPhone SN is as follows: AABCCDDDEEF

AA = Factory and Machine ID

B = Year of Manufacturing (9 is 2009/2019, 0 is 2010/2020, 1 is 2011 and so on)

CC = Production Week (01 is week 1 of B, 11 is week 11 of B and so on)

DDD = Unique Identifier

EE = Color (A4=black)

F = size (S=16GB, T=32GB)

More info: http://www.pressbyte.com/640/decode-iphone-hardware-information-serial-number/

Detect iDevice color

Model numbers are the way to do, for example:

MD381 - Black iPhone 4S

MC920 - White iPhone 4S

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