iMore - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch blog: Apple is now rejecting apps that collect UDID without permission

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Apple is now rejecting apps that collect UDID without permission Mar 30th 2012, 14:35 Apple let it be known back in August of 2011 that they'd be deprecating developer access to UDID ( Universal Device Identifier), they've now taken the next step and begun actively rejecting App Store apps that use it. The fine developers of Tweetbot have reported that one of their latest updates was rejected from Apple for collecting UDID information without getting user consent first. All this means for Tweetbot is that you lose push notification settings after deleting and re-installing, but for other apps that rely on UDID access, this could be a problem. The UDID is 40 characters that are unique to your iPhone and iPad, used most generally by developers to provision pre-release apps through the App Store. The new best practice, it seems, is for developers to create their own unique ID within the app and store it in iCloud. While this won't directly identify each device, it can identify users for specific things like notifications and settings. Ultimately, it's good news that Apple is making sure that developers aren't easily getting a hold on potentially sensitive data like UDIDs; iOS users are a little on edge about privacy after that Path incident. Source: Tapbots More of: News More on: app store, Development, rejected apps, tapbots, udid

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