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How To Get A Serial Number on macOS in Swift
var serialNumber: String? {
let platformExpert = IOServiceGetMatchingService(kIOMasterPortDefault, IOServiceMatching("IOPlatformExpertDevice") )
guard platformExpert > 0 else {
return nil
}
guard let serialNumber = (IORegistryEntryCreateCFProperty(platformExpert, kIOPlatformSerialNumberKey as CFString, kCFAllocatorDefault, 0).takeUnretainedValue() as? String)?.trimmingCharacters(in: CharacterSet.whitespacesAndNewlines) else {
return nil
}
IOObjectRelease(platformExpert)
return serialNumber
}
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laike9m commented Feb 23, 2025

@anoopmg it works on ARM chips for me

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