How to detect if the device is an iPhone 5

• February 12, 2014
• Jon
• Development, iOS, Objective-C
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The iPhone5 introduced a new resolution to support in our iOS applications. The IPhone 5 resolution is 640x1136px at 4 inch screen, which makes it more elongated than in previous devices.

You may want to detect if the application is being used from an iPhone 5 and change the behavior of an element.

There are some ways to do, this is one of them:

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#define IS_IPHONE5 (([[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size.height-568) ? NO : YES)

We have defined a constant that will help us to detect the resolution of the iPhone 5. In our code we’ll just use an if block to act accordingly.

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if (IS_IPHONE5)
{
    // The app is running on iPhone 5
}
else
{
    // Not an iPhone 5
}

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