One of my apps connects to a web app service that delivers device specific news to to the user. To adapt this to the latest iPhone versions I need to programmatically distinguish between the iPhone XS and iPhone X. How can this be done?
[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size was always a good starting point to tell the different devices apart. However, iPhone XS and iPhone X have the same screen dimensions: 1125 x 2436. Thus using [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size does not work in this case.
Is there any other method to detect the latest iPhone versions?
EDIT: This is NOT a duplicate of the question "How to detected iPhone X" since all answers/solutions discussed there use the screen dimensions to specify the device type. As described above iPhone X and iPhone XS have the exact same dimensions and thus the solutions cannot tell these two apart...
I use DeviceUtil to determine an iOS device's model.
According to this DeviceUtil GitHub post, the returned UIDevice hardwareString values are:
iPhone11,2 = iPhone XS
iPhone11,4 = iPhone XS Max
iPhone11,8 = iPhone XR
Curiously, the Xcode 10 GM Simulator's [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size returns 375 x 812 for iPhone X, XS, XS Max, and R devices. I had expected 414 x 896 for the XS Max and XR.